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That Unfortunate Marriage - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
That Unfortunate Marriage - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Author: Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Genre: Romance / Satire
This is the funny, romantic, slightly tongue-in-cheek story of how little May Cheffington makes her way in the world despite being the sole surviving product of "that unfortunate marriage." - Summary by Angela Rowland...
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing - Arnold Bennett
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Satire / Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, and Bennett, as always, stands the test of time, though in the case of some of the essays in this eclectic...
The Crocodile - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crocodile - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Satire / Short Stories
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His disquisitions on the state of the...
The Imaginary Invalid - Molière
The Imaginary Invalid - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière collapsed during his fourth...
Miss Mapp - E. F. Benson
Miss Mapp - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story The Male Impersonator), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress (published as The...
The History of Pompey the Little - Francis COVENTRY
The History of Pompey the Little - Francis COVENTRY
- Author: Francis COVENTRY
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
"Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages." At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress by Hillario, an English gentleman illustrious for...
Dubliners (Version 2) - James JOYCE
Dubliners (Version 2) - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish...
The Magnificent Lovers - Molière
The Magnificent Lovers - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
"The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment which should comprise all that the stage can furnish. To facilitate the execution of so vast an idea, and to link...
The Big Bow Mystery - Israel Zangwill
The Big Bow Mystery - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Satire
It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says, "one sublimely simple solution"...
Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Satire
The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church. Having escaped her father by...
The New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House - William Hurrell MALLOCK
The New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House - William Hurrell MALLOCK
- Author: William Hurrell MALLOCK
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Satire
A group of upper class men and women gather together in an English country house to discuss their ideas for a utopia (their "New Republic"). The novel is a satire mocking most of the important figures at Oxford University at the time of publication,...
The Princess Pourquoi - Margaret P. SHERWOOD
The Princess Pourquoi - Margaret P. SHERWOOD
- Author: Margaret P. SHERWOOD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
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 alien to her own sex, and undesired by the other. She shall ask and it will not be given her. She shall achieve...
Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles - Godfrey SWEVEN
Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles - Godfrey SWEVEN
- Author: Godfrey SWEVEN
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire / Fantasy Fiction
John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Introduction: "Absorbed in contemplation of its sublimity, I sat for a moment on a rock that rose out of the bush....
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade - Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major...
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu - W. S. Gilbert
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Satire
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’s music and the interpretation of actors, the consummate silliness of Gilbert’s libretto entertains. The...
The Physician In Spite of Himself - Molière
The Physician In Spite of Himself - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refreshing coolness throughout it all. The way in which Sganarelle is dubbed, or rather drubbed a doctor, is...
The School for Husbands - Molière
The School for Husbands - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom circumstances have given almost the...
The Inconstant - George Farquhar
The Inconstant - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Subtitled "The Way to Win Him:, this play is placed in Paris - a change from many others of Farquhar's plays which used English settings - though still presented to the same English audience. "This comedy ... had a reception, on the first night of...
Erewhon - Samuel BUTLER
Erewhon - Samuel BUTLER
- Author: Samuel BUTLER
- Genre: Satire / Science Fiction
Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction / Satire
In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is condemned to live the life of a slave. Twain uses this vehicle to...
Remarks - Bill Nye
Remarks - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained in it are different from any other facts now in use. I have carefully guarded, all the way through, against using...
The Red Room - August Strindberg
The Red Room - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities — politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business — he finds more hypocrisy and...
The Autobiography of Methuselah - John Kendrick Bangs
The Autobiography of Methuselah - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Religious Fiction / Satire
A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorded history. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)...
Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground - Ludvig, Baron HOLBERG
Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground - Ludvig, Baron HOLBERG
- Author: Ludvig Baron HOLBERG
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Satire / Science Fiction
Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as "Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum" (1741) is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-Danish dramatist, historian, and essayist, born in...
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again - Mark Twain
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how Chinese immigrants were treated in...
Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Satire
Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young things. We hear some of the history...
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance / Satire
Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate the shame of her circumstances....
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantankerous yet loveable sort, has made a deal with the devil, which his granddaughter, in part, will pay. - Summary...
Business - Ambrose Bierce
Business - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Poetry / Satire / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This was the weekly poetry project for August 2nd, 2009....
Greener Than You Think - Ward MOORE
Greener Than You Think - Ward MOORE
- Author: Ward MOORE
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Satire / Science Fiction
Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously in the form of prophetic fiction...
The Impromptu of Versailles - Molière
The Impromptu of Versailles - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they had prepared, the King has just asked for an entirely new piece - to be ready later that same day! So all the...
The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: Poetry / Satire / Narratives
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in...
This Simian World - Clarence DAY
This Simian World - Clarence DAY
- Author: Clarence DAY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence, but rather one of the other species had become dominant in our place. (summary...
The Glugs of Gosh - C. J. Dennis
The Glugs of Gosh - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Satire
First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs seem just as prevalent at the start of the twenty-first. The foolishness of kings, the arrogance of the...
The Bourgeois Gentleman - Molière
The Bourgeois Gentleman - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
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, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the pretentious middle class and the snobbish...
The Misanthrope - Molière
The Misanthrope - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows - Alceste might actually grow and change throughout the...
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 1 - Washington Irving
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 1 - 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...
Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams - Annie DENTON CRIDGE
Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams - Annie DENTON CRIDGE
- Author: Annie DENTON CRIDGE
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first seven dreams, she visits the planet...
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. - Washington Irving
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Washington Irving, under the pseudonym, Jonathan Oldstyle. These eight letters and one additional were first...
A Traveller from Altruria - William Dean Howells
A Traveller from Altruria - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of...
