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...nt is more important than the actual product itself, a simple description will become the commercial for a simple book. Are you getting tired of long books that take days to read? Do you have the attention span of a goldfish? Well we have just the thing for you! “Why, Rules?” is the simple child of the modern day world and a satirical mind. This 24 page composition (shorte...

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...adame Bovary, or the antibiotic, or The New York Times? Well, it depends. If books have to be copied out by hand, then Madame Bovary is just like the ... ...music were a threat to the traditional music business, but digital copies of books? I am skeptical. This book will be freely and legally available onl... ...true copyright statute—was produced partly because of publishers’ fights with booksellers; the authorial right grew as an afterthought. 5 The history o... ...tp://catalog.loc.gov/. This is an astounding repository of material—not just books and periodicals, but pictures, films, and music. The vast majority o... ...vast majority of this material, perhaps as much as 95 percent in the case of books, is commercially unavailable. 6 The process happens comparatively q... ... songs and films and photos of others and remixing them to express political, satirical, parodic, or simply funny points of view? I Got a Mashup 145 __...

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...A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorded history. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)...

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...?, Should Soldiers Be Polite? and Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass?. Each subject is analysed and commented on in the witty and satirical style we've grown to expect from the author....

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...Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence, but rather one of the other species had become dominant in our place. (summary by Epistomolus)...

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...L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to the sophistication of eighteenth century Paris, and satirizes religious doctrine, as well as the folly an...

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...While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists, idealists, snobs, fanatics and other ignorant fools of the day, most of which still wander through our mod...

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...as the Weekly Poetry project for March 18, 2012. Oscar Wilde, an Irish author who lived for much of his life in London, is most famous for his witty, satirical plays. He also worked for some time as a journalist. Much of his poetry was written early in his career, with a notable exception being The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This poem, Symphony in Yellow, is probably one of h...

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...çois Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters.(Summary by Wikipedia)...

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...arch 6th, 2011. Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparall...

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...icials, Taoist exorcists and beasts. Moral purposes are often inverted between humans and the supposedly degenerate ghosts or spirits, resulting in a satirical edge to some of the stories. Ghosts and spirits are often bold and trustworthy, while humans are on the other hand weak, indecisive and easily manipulated, reflecting the author's own disillusionment with his societ...

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...he teller. The setting, amidst the high-society spa towns and seaside resorts of the 18th century provides his characters with many opportunities for satirical observations on English life and manners....

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...tion of Ben Jonson, and even more of the latter's claim to be be Jonson's artistic heir. The most celebrated product of this controversy was Dryden's satirical poem, Mac Flecknoe, in which he presents Shadwell as the apostle of dullness. This elegant satire was first circulated unpublished in pamphlet form and then published in 1682. Shadwell responded with The Medal of Jo...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudal...

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...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...rs of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK I INTRODUCTION Among the notable books of later times-we may say, with- out exaggeration, of all time—must b... ... Therese, and devoted his time to herborising and indit- ing the first six books of his Confessions. Soon, however, his old hallucinations acquired st... ...k was more vexa- tious than ever; he even became a wit, telling me, with a satirical sneer, that I should unquestionably make my way among the ladies.... ...or salt, and announced a turn for satire; it is, notwithstanding, the only satirical writing that ever came from my pen. I have too little hatred in m... ...at, ridi- culed, made table-talk, and complimented on my enterprise by the satirical marquis, had such unconquerable power over me, that, though asham... ...ion or greater civility, than he constantly paid me (not- withstanding his satirical sallies), especially after my success, which, as he was unacquain... ...zvous for the next day, which she postponed for three days, adding, with a satirical smile, that I must needs be in want of repose. I was very ill at ...

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...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my ple...

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...t Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the... ...rtain M. Metivier, jr., wholesale dealer in pa- per; that on the left to a bookseller named Barbet. The of- fices of each were above the warerooms; th... ...okseller named Barbet. The of- fices of each were above the warerooms; the bookseller occu- pying the first storey, and the paper-dealer the second st... ...ular dealer, and Barbet, much more of a money lender and discounter than a bookseller, kept these vast warerooms for the purpose of stor- ing,—one, hi... ...s stacks of paper, bought of needy manufactur- ers, the other, editions of books given as security for loans. The shark of bookselling and the pike of... ...nd la Peyrade exchanged now and then a smile which betrayed their mutually satirical but repressed thoughts. La Peyrade, seated beside Flavie, whisper... ... who ap- peared in a cravat which alone was enough to create a stir in the satirical circle in which he was about to produce himself. The publisher, o...

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... Areopagitica by JOHN MILTON 1644 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents .... ...end not in either of these particulars. But that other clause of Licensing Books, which we thought had died with his brother quadragesimal and mat... ...to own; next what is to be thought in general of reading, whatever sort the books be; and that this Order avails nothing to the suppressing of scan... ...ils nothing to the suppressing of scan- dalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed. Last, that it will be... ... concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigi- lant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, impr... ...ugh himself disputes against that opinion in his own writings. Nor was the satirical sharpness or naked plainness of Lucilius, or Catullus, or F...

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... He is the friend of the young especially. Have we not read, all the story-books that his wonderful pencil has illustrated? Did we not forego tarts, i... ... the pump, which is as graceful and elegant as a drawing of Stothard. Dull books about children George Cruikshank makes bright with illustrations—ther... ...s little, enor- mous parson of parsons. Being on the subject of children’s books, how shall we enough praise the delightful German nursery-tales, and ... ...n’s boots,” which did not certainly fit the gouty son of Saint Louis. Such satirical hits as these, however, must not be considered as political, or a... ...o are not too fat to kneel! what a flustering and flapping of gilt prayer- books; and what a pious whirring of bible leaves one hears all over the chu... ..., and other old English scenes, he depicts with evident enthusiasm. Famous books in their day were Cruikshank’s “John Gilpin” and “Epping Hunt;” for t... ...inks in his face, and seems to say, O Bull, all this is froth, and a cruel satirical picture of a certain rustic who had a goose that laid certain gol...

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...er dinner.” “He drank sparingly,” said Mr. Fellingham. “I am sure you were satirical last night,” Annette said re- proachfully. “On the contrary, I to... ...has had the best instruction money could procure; and if she says you were satirical, you may depend on it you were.” “Oh, in that case, of course!” M... ...ld help it?” He thought himself warranted in giving the rein to his wicked satirical spirit, and talked lightly of the accidental character of the let... ...s nature of her father in his friendships, and his indisposition to hear a satirical remark upon his old schoolmate, the moment he understood it to be... ...reet as to roar aloud, not so very cordially. Annette thought him unkindly satirical; and his thoughts of her reduced her to the condition of a common... ...ecting from above the heads of prophets in the illustrations to cheap holy books—to deal with willing workers that have no hearts. Before the applicat...