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Candida (version 2) - George Bernard Shaw
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Candida (version 2) - George Bernard Shaw
This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Candida is responsible for much of his success. Candida returns home...
The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
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The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other characters, including both of the Laroons, try to manipulate Jourdain for their own ends; they accomplish it...
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like many novels of the time, Vanity Fair was published as a serial before being sold in book form; it was printed in...
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
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Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
  • Author: Ivan Goncharov
  • Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction / Satire
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century...
The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
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The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a shotgun at an annoying cat on his fence.. and hits a man skulking in the bushes. What did the cat do to...
A Cynic Looks At Life - Ambrose Bierce
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A Cynic Looks At Life - Ambrose Bierce
Civilization, Immortality, the Death Penalty, these are just a few of the essays enclosed in this collection, A Cynic Looks At Life. Written by Ambrose Bierce, these essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life. Summary...
The Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu) - Voltaire
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The Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu) - Voltaire
L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to the sophistication of eighteenth century Paris, and satirizes religious doctrine, as well as the folly and...
To a Faded Rose - Maurice Switzer
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To a Faded Rose - Maurice Switzer
  • Author: Maurice Switzer
  • Genre: Satire / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers bring you 16 recordings of "To a Faded Rose" by Maurice Switzer. This was the Weekly Poetry selection for June 16, 2013....
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
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Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom...
Dryden vs Shadwell - a Poetic Duel - John Dryden
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Dryden vs Shadwell - a Poetic Duel - John Dryden
Throughout history there have been many creative artists whose fame depends largely on their association with a much greater artist. Such the case of Thomas Shadwell, poet and prolific writer of low brow comedies, who is today most famous as the...
Arms and The Man - George Bernard Shaw
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Arms and The Man - George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular of his plays. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war...
Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen - F. Anstey
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Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen - F. Anstey
These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine. From the prefatory note: "The author is conscious that his imitation is painfully lacking in the mysterious obscurity...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more...
Lucian's True History - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
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Lucian's True History - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
One of the earliest works of science-fiction (nearly 2,000 years old). It has space travel (including war in space), lunar civilization, and aliens, along with more fantasy elements, such as the afterlife and Greek gods. A satire on contemporary...
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
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The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
  • Author: May Sinclair
  • Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgment of Eve, like most of her novels, uses irony and understatement to expose the hypocrisy of the social order...
Not That it Matters (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
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Not That it Matters (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
  • Author: A. A. MILNE
  • Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Single Author Collections
A. A. MILNE: …was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his day. He was highly acclaimed for dozens of popular plays. Moreover, he was both a contributor to and editor...
Joan and Peter - H. G. Wells
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Joan and Peter - H. G. Wells
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Genre: Children's Fiction / Satire
This is satirical look at the English educational system and society in the early twentieth century and the effect of World War I on them by following the lives of Peter Stublands and the orphaned Joan. It is a sad indictment, and Wells includes "An...
Peg O' My Heart - John Hartley Manners
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Peg O' My Heart - John Hartley Manners
The Chichester family have just gone bankrupt due to bank failure. Their situation looks gloomy until Mrs. Chichester learns of the death of her brother Nathaniel. While Nathaniel hasn't left them any money, he put a clause into his will stating...
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times - Alice DUER MILLER
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Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times - Alice DUER MILLER
A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the New York Times. The work consists of five sections: Treacherous Texts, Campaign Material (For Both Sides),...
The Holiday Round - A. A. MILNE
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The Holiday Round - A. A. MILNE
  • Author: A. A. MILNE
  • Genre: Satire / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie the Pooh. Yet he was an incredibly prolific author. He published dozens of successful plays, myriad humorous...
You Never Can Tell - George Bernard Shaw
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You Never Can Tell - George Bernard Shaw
In this witty comedy of errors, the Clandon siblings, Gloria and the twins, Dolly and Philip attempt to uncover the identity of their long lost father. Playwright George Bernard Shaw uses the odd mix of eccentric characters thrown together in a...
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 3: The Dialogues of the Dead - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
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Lucian's Dialogues Volume 3: The Dialogues of the Dead - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
  • Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Dramatic Readings / Satire
Dialogues of the Dead are 30 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a lot of their original...
A Battle of the Books - Gail Hamilton
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A Battle of the Books - Gail Hamilton
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publishers, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
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The Importance of Being Earnest (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
In this most popular of all Oscar Wilde’s plays, two fashionable bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, discover that each has been simplifying his social obligations via the use of a convenient false persona. Their comfortable white lies...
The Weaker Sex - Arthur Wing Pinero
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The Weaker Sex - Arthur Wing Pinero
Mrs. Boyle-Chewton and her cause - the Advancement of Women from the Rear to the Van. Lady Vivash, new recruit to the cause. Their daughters Sylvia and Rhoda. Mr. Bargus, Member of Parliament for the Skipping-Molton Division of Cuddleford, who is...
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
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The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
Tom Thumb, small of stature, great of heart. This play was written as a parody of the tragic heroic biography of a great man, filled with biting satire as to people and events of the time. Note as warned by the title that this is not a happy-ending...
The Author's Farce - Henry Fielding
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The Author's Farce - Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding could not write plays that he could get published. So he decided to write a play - a farce - about that, and success was his at last. The third act of the play is the play that the Author in the play supposedly writes - a Puppet Show...
The Litigants - Jean Racine
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The Litigants - Jean Racine
This play, which is neither a comedy or a farce but has elements in common with each, was first performed in 1668 at Paris, and afterwards at Versailles. It is a French adaptation of "The Wasps" of Aristophanes. Racine's own experience of law and...
The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
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The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
  • Author: Ambrose Bierce
  • Genre: Satire / Published before 1800 / Single Author Collections
This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile. It is a collection of short stories which cover many subjects. Dependent upon the reader the stories may seem...
Monsieur De Pourceaugnac - Molière
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Monsieur De Pourceaugnac - Molière
  • Author: Molière
  • Genre: Plays / Satire
'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac', acted on October 6, 1669, is nothing but a farce. But Molière excels in farce as well as in higher comedy, and 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac' is one of the best of its kind. The attacks upon the doctors of the time are not...
Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
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Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
  • Author: Jane Austen
  • Genre: Dramatic Readings / Epistolary Fiction / Satire
Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known for were not published until she was in her thirties, she was an active writer from the age of...
Zuleika Dobson - Max BEERBOHM
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Zuleika Dobson - Max BEERBOHM
A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the Duke of Dorset falls hopelessly in love with Zuleika who is visiting her...
John Donne's Satires - John Donne
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John Donne's Satires - John Donne
Donne’s Style In John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology, human to the waist but goat from there down. That is the reason that Donne’s style in these poems exceeds...
Don Juan, or The Feast with the Statue - Molière
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Don Juan, or The Feast with the Statue - Molière
Don Juan "contains, perhaps, more severe attacks upon hypocrisy than does even Tartuffe. It depicts the hero as a man who, rich, noble, powerful, and bold, respects neither heaven nor earth, and knows no bounds to the gratification of his desires or...
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting - Jane Collier
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An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting - Jane Collier
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting was a conduct book written by Jane Collier and published in 1753. The Essay was Collier's first work, and operates as a satirical advice book on how to nag. It was modelled after Jonathan Swift's...
The Old Bachelor - William CONGREVE
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The Old Bachelor - William CONGREVE
"In The Old Bachelor we have three or four concurrent plots, which become interwoven, indeed, at the end.... It is recorded that the successive unmasking of four beautiful women gave the audience such delight that they burst into a thunder of...
The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English) - Pierre Beaumarchais
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The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English) - Pierre Beaumarchais
This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official staging in 1784. Beaumarchais' play was the basis for Mozart's 1796 opera, and is a satire about...
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
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Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
  • Author: Guy de Maupassant
  • Genre: Historical Fiction / Satire / Single Author Collections
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franco-Prussian War and the disillusionment of life and relationships. This collection of his works, containing...
Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love - Ben Jonson
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Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love - Ben Jonson
"Cynthia's Revels," the second "comical satire," was acted in 1600, and, as a play, is even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every Man Out of His Humour." Here personal satire seems to have absorbed everything, and while much of the...
Turns About Town - Robert Cortes Holliday
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Turns About Town - Robert Cortes Holliday
Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." Most of these pleasant pieces appeared...
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