Social Satire


The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
The Importance of Being Earnest
Sense and Sensibility
Animal Farm
Cat’s Cradle
The House of Mirth
Vanity Fair
Gulliver’s Travels
Emma
Such a Fun Age
The Sellout
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
A Week in December
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Maggie Shipstead
This was truly advanced WASP: how to comfort a wronged wife and mother without acknowledging any misdeeds done or embarrassment caused by loved ones.
Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements

E.F. Benson
This was all splendid stuff for Luciaphils; it was amazing how at a first glance she recognised everybody. The gallery, too, was full of dears and darlings of a few weeks' standing, and she completed a little dinner-party for next Tuesday long before she had made the circuit. All the time she kept Stephen by her side, looked over his catalogue, put a hand on his arm to direct his attention to some picture, took a speck of alien material off his sleeve, and all the time the entranced Adele felt i ...more
E.F. Benson, Lucia in London

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