satire
Paris à Cheval
Paris on Horseback was written and illustrated by French author and cartoonist known as Crafty, whose real name was Victor Eugène Geruzez (1840-1906), specializing in books on horses and hunting. The contents of the book are divided into sections: "Cavalry of Paris," "At the Bois de Boulogne," "At the Races," and "The Art of Falling from the Horse." These satirical and witty observations highlight the transactions and tricks that surrounded acquiring a horse from a Parisian horse dealer. It takes a comical view of French society, the racing world, the horse show, and dressage.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
This collection of Yankee essays by beloved American author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, a magazine that Holmes named. Eventually published in book form, this second edition copy is about as American as apple pie with a side of New England cheddar. Published in Boston in 1859, it still boasts its original, austere, American publishers' cloth binding typical of the mid-19th century. The essays are "dramedy" vignettes about a fictional Boston boardinghouse and the breakfast conversations among residents therein.
