Farces

Explore the best farce books with our curated list of hilarious and satirical reads. Discover classic and modern farces that deliver wit, humor, and absurdity in literature.

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Giles Goat-Boy

by John Barth

From the author of National Book Award-nominated Lost in the Funhouse, comes an outrageously farcical adventure that challenges our notions of technology, power, and human …
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The Sot-weed Factor

by John Barth

A parody of life in colonial America relates the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke who became the poet laureate of Maryland.
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The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut

“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire Nominated …
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Baudolino

by Umberto Eco

Baudolino, having just rescued a court official caught in the sacking and burning of Constantinople in 1204, proceeds to entertain the man with the fantastical …
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The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star …
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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

Set in New Orleans, the protagonist is nearly arrested for being a suspicious character and encounters many unfortunate events.