Parody Stories

The volume contains three of Crane’s longer short works, each exploring themes of morality, prejudice, and human weakness.

A complex novel combining two parallel storylines: one set in the real world and one in a fantastical fairyland.

The story follows two carefree Harvard students who spend most of their time socializing, joking, and avoiding serious study.

An aristocrat with progressive ideas, insists on equality between servants and masters.

A widowed and manipulative woman in her mid-thirties who wants a husband for herself and her daughter.

A satirical work where Jerome takes readers on an exploration of the clichés, stock characters, and absurdities of the 19th-century melodrama.

Israel Potter leaves his home in Massachusetts to fight in the American Revolutionary War. After fighting at Bunker Hill, he is captured by the British.

A social critique centered on a kind, modest young woman born and raised in Marshalsea Prison for Debt in London.

A humorous sequel to his earlier novel Three Men in a Boat. It follows the same three friends on another misadventure.

A novella that follows the transformation of Scrooge, a cold-hearted old man who despises Christmas.