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Satirical books

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The Devil's Dictionary

satirical wordbook by Ambrose Bierce

satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 by Sebastian Brant

novel, in the form of a commentary on a poem, by Vladimir Nabokov

Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum

collection of satirical Latin letters which appeared in the 16th century in Germany

Lettres provinciales

book by Blaise Pascal

The Fable of the Bees

1705 essay by Bernard Mandeville

Dictionary of Received Ideas

book by Gustave Flaubert

The Tao of Programming

essay by Geoffrey James

Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

pamphlet by Maurice Joly

The Timarion () is a Byzantine pseudo-Lucianic satirical dialogue probably composed in the twelfth century (there are references to the eleventh-century Michael Psellus), though possibly later.

L'Art de péter

1751 essay by Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut

fantasy series by Joe Abercrombie

McOndo is a Latin American literary movement that breaks with the magical realism mode of narration, and counters it with languages borrowed from mass media. The literature of McOndo presents urban Latin American life, in opposition to the fictional rural town of Macondo.

philosophical book by Francisco de Quevedo

The Battle of the Books

book by Jonathan Swift

Les Cent Contes drolatiques

collection of tales by Honoré de Balzac

Virgile travesti

Parodic verse by Paul Scarron (1648)

book by George Berkeley

A Simple Thinking About Blood Type

South Korean webtoon

The Tale of Fedot the Strelets

1987 play written by Leonid Filatov

Papyrus Anastasi I

ancient Egyptian papyrus

Les quinze joies de mariage

anonymous late 14th or early 15th century French satire in prose