Great Satire: Laughter with a knife in it

The art of the savage joke — Swift’s Modest Proposal, Voltaire’s Candide, Twain, and Bierce, who used comedy to tell the cruelest truths.

In this collection

• The Motriot (other Verses)
• Humanitarianism and Strength
• Tobin's Palm
• The Machinations of Angels
• Dock Stebbins
• Town
• Battle of the Babies
• The Pot of Caviare
• The Friendship of Amis and Amile
• Nebuchadnezzar's Fall
• The Old Soldier's Story. as Told before the New England Society in New York City
• In Contumaciam
• The Twilight Guests
• And the Last Shall be First
• Little Caesar
• Búlka
• Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
• Romaunt of the Roses
• Whiskey did It
• Waiting for a Ship
• The Girl from Bodies, Inc
• The House
• The Black Bordered Letter
• The Trippertrots and the Train of Cars
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