Satirical stories

1842 story by Nikolai Gogol

cycle of Old French fables

thumb|300px|Apocolocyntosis, from a 9th-century manuscript of the Abbey library of Saint Gall. The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally Pumpkinification/Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a satire on the Roman emperor Claudius (), which, according to Cassius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger. A partly extant Menippean satire, an anonymous work called Ludus de morte Divi Claudii ("Play on the Death of the Divine Claudius") in its surviving manuscripts, may or may not be identical to the text mentioned by Cassius Dio. "Apocolocyntosis" is a word play on "apotheosis", the proce

short story by Edgar Allan Poe

short story by Kurt Vonnegut

short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

story by Ukrainian author Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko

short-story by Edgar Allan Poe

humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe

book by Desiderius Erasmus

short story by Radoje Domanović