Subversive Satire

Satire that cut close enough to the bone to be suppressed — Swift, Voltaire, Twain, and Shaw, who hid hard truths inside a joke.

Laughter as a weapon against power

In this collection

• The Thrift of Strength
• The Wolf and the Babe
• At Heaven's Gate
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• An Art Critic
• Omnes Vanitas
• The Inca of Perusalem
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain
• MAD
• The Death Penalty
• About all Kinds of Ships
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6
• An Average
• Curing a Cold
• Philosophers Three
• On the Wedding of an Aëronaut
• The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme
• The Jumping Frog
• One Summer Night
• The Turning-Point of my Life
• His Fly-Speck Majesty
• Father and Son
• Vice Versa
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
• A Tramp Abroad, Volume 5
• Political Economy
• A Demand
• Concerning the Jews
• The Pugilist's Diet
• A Morning Fancy
• The Dream of Distribution According to Merit
• The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine
• The Perfect Wagnerite
• Life on the Mississippi, Part 2
• The Noser and the Note

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