Books to discover: Humor & satire

George Orwell

Era un día frío y luminoso de abril y los relojes estaban dando las trece.

George Orwell

O sr. Jones, proprietário da Fazenda do Solar, fechara o galinheiro à noite, mas estava bêbado demais para se lembrar de fechar as portinholas.

Ray Bradbury

Le plaisir d'incendier !

E. B. White, E.B. Webb

WHERE'S Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

Roald Dahl

Ce Vieux monsieur et cette vieille dame sont les parents de Mr. Bucket.

Lewis Carroll

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

Douglas Adams

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Mark Twain

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

Jeff Kinney

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Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Rick Riordan

During the third attack, Hazel almost ate a boulder.

Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

Jeff Kinney

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Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Jeff Kinney

The worst part of having someone tell you about their vacation is trying to pretend you are happy for them

Edwin Abbott Abbott

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.