The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as well as in verse.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This book opens with a foreword by special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen(The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) and a biographical essay on Knight by WilliamStout (The New Dinosaurs).