Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts

Emma / Jane Austen

Title: Emma 
Author: Jane Austen
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Humor

Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England; she creates a lively comedy of manners and depicts issues of marriage, gender, age, and social status. This novel has been adapted for several films, television programmes, and many stage plays. It is inspiration for several novels.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain

Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Mark Twain
Subjects: Fiction; Classic; Adventure; Children; Humor

The book is about the joys of childhood. Full of satire, talk about racism, childhood and teaching loyalty and courage without fearing about the cost of it. Regarded as most popular fiction in America. Its in the list of must read, always. 

A Modest Proposal / Jonathan Swift


Title: A Modest Proposal 
      For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public - 1729 
Author: Jonathan Swift 
Subjects: Fiction; Essay; Satire; Humor 

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,

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