Satire

And Even Now

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Max Beerbohm


This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…

The Country Wife

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William Wycherley


One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of cou…

Les veillées du chauffeur: contes, essais, récits de voyages

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Tristan Bernard


Tristan Bernard (1866-1947) nous emmène en route à travers la France avec cette collection de courtes vignettes et anecdotes a…

ספר הקבצנים Fishke the Lame (The Book of Beggars)

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מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim


Mendele Mocher Sforim (Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish wr…

William -- The Fourth

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Richmal Crompton


The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

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Stephen Leacock


Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


"Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, has…

מסעות בנימין השלישי The Wanderings of Benjamin III

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מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim


Mendele Mocher Sforim (Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish wr…

Curiosities of Street Literature

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Various


This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…

The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu

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W. S. Gilbert


In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…

The Bourgeois Gentleman

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Molière


The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, …

The Princess Pourquoi

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Margaret P. Sherwood


Once upon a time, a princess was born, and a fairy cursed her with a mind: "She is a woman-child, and yet she shall think. She shall be…

The Glugs of Gosh

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C. J. Dennis


First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs…

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

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Lucian Of Samosata


The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian autho…

The Importance of Being Earnest (version 5)

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Oscar Wilde


In this most popular of all Oscar Wilde’s plays, two fashionable bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, discover that each has bee…

Headlong Hall (dramatic reading)

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Thomas Love Peacock


Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 (dated 1816). As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock asse…

Satires and Profanities

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George William Foote


"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought,…

Сказки

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Сказочный цикл Салтыкова-Щедрина создавался писателем на протяжении 18 лет - с 1869 по 1886 год.Каждая из сказок Щедрина — законченное произ…

The Holiday Round

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A. A. Milne


Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…

The Celebrity

Read by Joseph Tabler


Winston Churchill


Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler

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