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The malcontents : the best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world
- Title
- The malcontents : the best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world / edited, with commentary, by Joe Queenan.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Running Press, c2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 03-9338 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Queenan, Joe.
- Description
- 1053; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes biographical essays.
- Contents
- The birds / Aristophanes -- Satire I / Juvenal -- The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Selections from Gargantua and Pantagruel / François Rabelais -- Selections from Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- Volpone / Ben Jonson -- The bourgeois gentleman / Molière -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- Candide / Voltaire -- An excerpt from Justine: or the misfortunes of Virtue / Marquis de Sade -- Lady Susan / Jane Austen -- The nose / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol -- English as she is taught ; Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses ;Marjorie Fleming, the wonder child ; In defense of Harriet Shelley ; A medieval romance ; The story of the good little boy ; The grateful poodle and sequel / Mark Twain -- Killed at Resaca ; Oil of dog ; An imperfect conflagration ; My favorite murder ; The boarded window ; The lion and the thorn ; A revolt of the gods / Ambrose Bierce -- The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw -- The reticence of Lady Anne ; The quest ; Shock tactics ; Hyacinth ; Tobermory / Saki -- Selections from the Irish Times / Flann O'Brien.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-9338
- ISBN
- 0762413441
- LCCN
- 2002100439
- OCLC
- 50796209
- Title
- The malcontents : the best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world / edited, with commentary, by Joe Queenan.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Running Press, c2002.
- Added Author
- Queenan, Joe.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-9338