Popular European Satire Books
Find satire books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (43)
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Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra EN
SpainDescription:
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. With its experimen... continue
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El Jugador by Fedor Dostoievski ES
RussiaDescription:
Narrated in first person, the author reflects autobiographical elements for the writing of the player. The loving passion frustrated by the voluble seducer Plina Sslova projects in the personage Alexi Ivnovich and the slavery of the game related to the absolute subjection of its loving relations. It recreates means in which the economic preoccupations of several of the personages, constitute a distressing cotidianidad.
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El Prncipe Feliz y otros cuentos by Oscar Wilde ES
IrelandDescription:
El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos, es una colección de cuentos escrita en 1888 por Oscar Wilde. Contiene cinco cuentos, de los cuales algunos, son conocidos mundialmente como. El gigante egoísta, El ruiseñor y la rosa La historia trata de un joven estudiante enamorado de una chica. Necesitaba una rosa roja para impresionarla y que así ella fuera al baile con él. Sólo tenía rosas blancas en su jardín, entonces se puso a llorar. Un ruiseñor le vio y este, ilusionado con la idea de que el joven pueda encontrar el amor verdadero, toma la decisión de sacrificar su vida para teñir una rosa roja con ... continue
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Endlings by Maria Reva EN
UkraineDescription:
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and the impact of war. "This novel turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one.”– Percival Everett, author of National Book Award-winner James "Funny and smart. This is essential reading.”– Ann Patchett, add bestselling author of Tom Lake "Pulses ... continue
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Für eine schlechte Überraschung gut : Roman by Arto Paasilinna DE
FinlandDescription:
Winter 1942. Finnland und die Sowjetunion befinden sich im Krieg. Zwei sowjetische Soldaten, Savolenko und Kunitsjin, werden in den finnischen Wäldern ausgesetzt. Ihr Spionage-Auftrag, geplant als Heldeneinsatz im Feindesland, entwickelt sich jedoch zu einem skurrilen Abenteuer. Auf ihrem Marsch durch die Winterlandschaft haben sie überraschende Begegnungen: mit einer verführerischen Apothekerin, einem trinkfreudigen Bauern und einem müden Militärpferd. Viel Stoff für einen kurzweiligen Roman aus Finnland!
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Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins EN
FranceDescription:
Nineteen-year-old Harold Chasen is obsessed with death. He fakes suicides to shock his self-obsessed mother, drives a hearse, and attends funerals of complete strangers. Seventy-nine-year-old Maude Chardin, on the other hand, adores life. She liberates trees from city sidewalks and transplants them to the forest, paints smiles on the faces of church statues, and "borrows" cars to remind their owners that life is fleeting—here today, gone tomorrow! A chance meeting between the two turns into a madcap, whirlwind romance, and Harold learns that life is worth living, and how to play the banjo. Har... continue
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Hartenvrouw by Iulian Ciocan NL
MoldovaDescription:
Een corrupte ambtenaar In Moldavië wordt geconfronteerd met een gat in het asfalt voor zijn villa dat steeds groter wordt en waarin van alles verdwijnt.
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La Importancia de llamarse Ernesto by Oscar Wilde ES
Description:
Los lectores disfrutarán descubriendo los clásicos a través de estas ediciones, elegantemente presentadas y a precios asequibles, de obras literarias famosas de todo el mundo. Se representan diversos períodos, temas y autores.
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Le passe-muraille by Marcel Aymé FR
Description:
Un essai Etude approfondie d'un grand texte classique ou contemporain par un spécialiste de l'œuvre : approche critique originale des multiples facettes du texte dans une présentation claire et rigoureuse. Un dossier Bibliographie, chronologie, variantes, témoignages, extraits de presse. Eclaircissements historiques et contextuels, commentaires critiques récents. Un ouvrage efficace, élégant. Une nouvelle manière de lire.