Hudibras
by Samuel Butler
317 pages~5 hrs
“Holy war has never been this hilariously hypocritical.”
Join the bumbling Sir Hudibras and his cynical squire on a riotous journey through the religious and political chaos of 17th-century England. This biting mock-epic skewers hypocrisy with razor-sharp wit and slapstick humor, proving that the only thing more dangerous than a civil war is a knight with too much zeal and too little sense.
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