Found 448 results for "Parody in literature"
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Groth
MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.
The Big Four
by Agatha Christie
I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...
The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells
on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...
War and Peace
by Лев Толстой
"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.
Le petit prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Als ich sechs Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch über den Urwald, das „Erlebte geschichten hieß“, ein prächtige...
The Colour of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
If I had a penny for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the Discworld, I'd have—hang on a moment—£4.67.
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in w...
Old Friends, Epistolary Parody
by Andrew Lang
Mr. Newcome, a married man and an exile at Boulogne, sends Mr. Arthur Pendennis a poem on his undying affection for his ...
A Burnt-Out Case
by Graham Greene
THE cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive,' then sat pen in...
The pilgrim's regress
by C. S. Lewis
I DREAMED OF A BOY who was born in the land of Puritania and his name was John.