This work sharply satirizes life in an imaginary America that is also Germany.
This savage and blackly humorous version of the Cain and Abel story also satirizes the modern West's exploitation of the romanticized cowboys-and-Indians West of American mythology.
1240; "Reynard the Fox") is the Flemish poet Willem's version of a translation by another Fleming, Aernout, of the French Le Plaid, which, by contrast, brilliantly satirizes feudal society and the epic manner.
A collection of character sketches, People in Glass Houses (1967), satirizes the intricate, idealistic world of the United Nations, where she worked from 1952 to 1962.
Marmor Norfolciense satirizes Walpole and the house of Hanover.
Chief the Honourable Minister (1970) satirizes the calamity resulting from a schoolmaster's appointment as minister of works in a newly independent country.
Thought to be authored during the latter half of the 2nd century CE, Lucian's, which fancifully satirizes Greek conceptions of astronomy, anthropology, geography, theology, and biology as well as dabbles in utopian thoughts, can be perceived as one of the earliest experiments in what has come to be known as the science fiction genre.
Like so many of Tolstoy's early works, this story satirizes the artifice and conventionality of human society, a theme that also dominates Tolstoy's novel Kazaki (1863; The Cossacks).
Professor Lovdahl), in which he achieves his best psychological portraiture; and Sankt Hans fest (1887; "Midsummer Festival"), in which he satirizes the hypocrisy of Norway's clergy.
Henze's best-known operas are Elegy for Young Lovers (1961), his first collaboration with the poets W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, and Der junge Lord (1965; "The Young Lord"), which satirizes German provincial life.
The Plain-Dealer, presented in 1676, satirizes rapacious greed.
