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Cupid's Cyclopedia - Oliver Herford
Cupid's Cyclopedia - Oliver Herford
- Author: Oliver Herford
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and illustrator, John Cecil Clay. Herford’s books were usually short and quite popular in their time. He is a...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) - 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...
Mrs. Pretty and The Premier - Arthur ADAMS
Mrs. Pretty and The Premier - Arthur ADAMS
- Author: Arthur ADAMS
- Genre: Plays / Satire
The Premier has decided that being married would be good for his image. He asks his stenographer for advice: (Premier) Good. Just jot me down a precis of the points made by your fifteen admirers when proposing - the points that specially appealed to...
The Inspector-General - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Inspector-General - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: Satire
The Governor and Officials of a small provincial town in Russia are worried. They have received word that a Government Inspector is on his way. As they do what they can to cover up their own corruption and incompetence, a man arrives at the Inn and...
The Love-Tiff - Molière
The Love-Tiff - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
"The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from which there is no visible disentangling. The conversation between Valère and Ascanio in man's clothes, the mutual...
Gorgias - Plato
Gorgias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Satire / *Non-fiction
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of "Republic" and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in...
Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
- Author: Allan MONKHOUSE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values. (Summary by wildemoose) Cast:...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100) - 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...
The Wonderful Visit - H. G. Wells
The Wonderful Visit - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Satire / Science Fiction
An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the imperfections of Victorian society, as ‘angel’ and humans view each other with equal incomprehension.( summary by Mary Bard)...
The Cabinet Minister - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Cabinet Minister - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exaggerates their sentiments and magnifies their foibles. In this light it is permitted to this class of play, not...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Satire
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel) The Wit and Humor of America series...
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Comedy / Satire
” “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, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable.” Such is the preface of F....
The Tysons - May Sinclair
The Tysons - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Satire
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice...
What is Man? and Other Essays - Mark Twain
What is Man? and Other Essays - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is...
The History of Troilus and Cressida (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The History of Troilus and Cressida (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Satire / Tragedy
The History of Troilus and Cressida has long baffled critics and audiences alike for its inconsistent tone, which ranges from bawdy comedy to somber tragedy, as well as its decidedly unheroic and unsympathetic cast of characters. It is also a work...
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream - John Kendrick Bangs
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--" "Mercy!" cried Alice, "Why, that is--that is terrible." "It certainly is," said the March Hare ruefully, it's rotten. Here I've...
Cinderella - George CALDERON
Cinderella - George CALDERON
- Author: George CALDERON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one." Set on a "bleak and cheerless heath overlooking the fjord" we meet...
George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband - Molière
George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favorite gardens of Versailles. Moliere's comedy, George Dandin, formed the chief entertainment." The plot: A wife comes...
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" instead of the "Gentle Grafter", the name O. Henry picked for him. His situation as an ethical graft artist gives Jeff an extra...
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legislating most fruits and vegetables as unsafe or...
A Common Story - Ivan Goncharov
A Common Story - Ivan Goncharov
- Author: Ivan Goncharov
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire
Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersburg, not only to make his mark upon society but also to fulfill his two rosy romantic dreams of becoming a great...
The Bores - Molière
The Bores - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Moliere: "Never was any Dramatic performance so hurried as this; and it is a thing, I believe, quite new, to have a comedy planned, finished, got up, and played in a fortnight. I do not say this to boast of an impromptu, or to pretend to any...
The Satyricon - Gaius Petronius ARBITER
The Satyricon - Gaius Petronius ARBITER
- Author: Gaius Petronius ARBITER
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Satire
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the...
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War - Finley Peter DUNNE
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War - Finley Peter DUNNE
- Author: Finley Peter DUNNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin Dooley, "doctor of philosophy." Mr. Dooley was a saloonkeeper with opinions on most everything in his day,...
The Knight of the Burning Pestle - Francis Beaumont
The Knight of the Burning Pestle - Francis Beaumont
- Author: Francis Beaumont
- Genre: Satire
The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts, first performed in 1607. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don Quixote. It breaks the fourth wall...
The Lie (version 2) - Sir Walter RALEIGH
The Lie (version 2) - Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Author: Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Genre: Poetry / Satire / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "The Lie" by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period beginning September 16, 2012. The Lie is a political and social criticism poem probably written by Sir Walter Raleigh....
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in this collection are works that appeared by themselves in magazines during Twain's lifetime, as well as essays...
The Blunderer, or The Counterplots - Molière
The Blunderer, or The Counterplots - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
A very early Moliere. From the Translator: "In this piece the plot is carried on ... by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first original personage Molière has created; he is not a mere imitation of the valets of the Italian or classical comedy; he...
The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Satire
This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person. LibriVox has three excellent dramatic recordings with all the parts played by different people so if that is more to your taste,...
The Acharnians (Billson Translation) - Aristophanes
The Acharnians (Billson Translation) - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Satire
Loaded with cryptic, nearly indecipherable inside jokes and double entendres, this early comedy of Aristophanes has a simple, anti-war premise that resounds down the centuries. On flimsy pretexts, greedy politicians have embroiled the nation of...
The Green Carnation - Robert Smythe HICHENS
The Green Carnation - Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Author: Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Genre: Satire
The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - also known as 'Bosie', whom the author personally knew. It was an...
The Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
The Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you’re beneath...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences - Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Satire
Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny, vicious little essay on the subject, in which he states: "In one place...
The Devil is an Ass - Ben Jonson
The Devil is an Ass - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Plays / Satire
An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Squire Fabian Fitzdottrel, he finds Fabian currently beset by con men, cheats, connivers, thieves, villains,...
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from burial in the great mausoleum of the...
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel BUTLER
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel BUTLER
- Author: Samuel BUTLER
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious...
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Romance / Satire
Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror — but the superficial world of Bath...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275) - 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...
Roads of Destiny - O. Henry
Roads of Destiny - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Satire / Westerns / Single Author Collections
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid...
