Satire - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
Anti-imperialist Writings - Mark Twain
Anti-imperialist Writings - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Satire / Literary Collections
This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)...
The "Mind The Paint" Girl - Arthur Wing Pinero
The "Mind The Paint" Girl - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Another Pinero play from the early 1900s. With a social message about the effects of stardom on the star as well as those that love them. "I’m afraid there’s one thing finer than winning the woman you love and, when you’ve won her, being prepared to...
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Please note: this recording contains strong language. "1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of...
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Satire
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth which was first published in 1800. It is recognised as the first true historical novel in English as...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Published 1800 -1900
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as "A Square", to deride the Victorian aristocracy and its hierarchies. But the book...
Penguin Island - Anatole France
Penguin Island - Anatole France
- Author: Anatole France
- Genre: Satire
The novel (original French title -- L'Île des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature. The first publication was in 1908. These penguins are mistaken for humans by the 97-year-old priest, Father Mael, because of his bad eyesight. He baptizes them,...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book....
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Satire
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word gets out that he is ill, he finds himself surrounded by a throng of relatives that he despises, all hoping...
Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot
Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot
- Author: Denis Diderot
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire (French: Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde) is an imaginary philosophical conversation written by Denis Diderot, probably between 1761 and 1772. It was first published in 1805 in German translation by...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or...
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is crossed by Arthur Clennam. Their...
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
- Author: Thomas Love Peacock
- Genre: Satire
Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths of their detestation. Others of...
Widowers' Houses - George Bernard Shaw
Widowers' Houses - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Plays / Romance / Satire
This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences—as traditional Victorian theatre was expected to—but to raise awareness of social...
The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance / Satire
Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have suitors: their cousin, Bernard Dale,...
The Constant Couple - George Farquhar
The Constant Couple - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Satire
George Farquhar, the author of this comedy, was the son of a clergyman in the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1678, discovered an early taste for literature, and wrote poetic stanzas at ten years of age. In 1694 he was sent to Trinity...
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that this is NOT a farce - the hypocrisy is not played for laughs. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Antonio Poppi,...
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly Brown, who provides the investment)...
The Dragon of Wantley - Owen Wister
The Dragon of Wantley - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, and the terrible Dragon of Wantley. Oh, and don't forget the wine. (Summary by D. A. Frank )...
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on...
Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov
Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provincial lunatic asylum, overseeing with weary, dubious policies a motley group of patients, a group...
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, in the Oxford student magazine...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Satire
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly entertaining satire, but...
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir...
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Satire
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of...
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Satire
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work.Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters...
Tartuffe - Molière
Tartuffe - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works is Tartuffe or The Hypocrite, written in...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Bill Nye's Cordwood - Bill Nye
Bill Nye's Cordwood - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at everything and everybody. This book is another wonderful collection of his thoughts on late 19th century America....
Aesop's Fables, Volume 07 (Fables 151-175) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 07 (Fables 151-175) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Love is the Best Doctor - Molière
Love is the Best Doctor - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is driven to the streets where he finds a quack and his daughter's disguised lover. Moliere: "This is only a...
The Learned Women - Molière
The Learned Women - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Satire
Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's family. Her sensible father and uncle are in favour of the marriage; but unfortunately her father is under the...
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang...
Mornings at Bow Street - John Wight
Mornings at Bow Street - John Wight
- Author: John Wight
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces of this book are actual reports throughout the 1870s newspaper written by the reporter, John Wight and...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
A Bayard from Bengal - F. Anstey
A Bayard from Bengal - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manners, which immediately mark him as a foreigner, and embarks on an enviable program of escapades. These stories...
The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town. His perversity however thwarts...
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 2 - Washington Irving
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 2 - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Satire / Early Modern
Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history and politics entitled A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by...
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Satire
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of...
