Satire - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
The Conscious Lovers - Richard STEELE
The Conscious Lovers - Richard STEELE
- Author: Richard STEELE
- Genre: Plays / Satire
As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of "a friend of mine" who was lately preparing a comedy according to the just laws of the stage, and had introduced a scene in which the first character bore unprovoked wrong, denied a duel, and still...
Nicholas Nickleby: A Farce in 2 Acts - Edward Stirling
Nicholas Nickleby: A Farce in 2 Acts - Edward Stirling
- Author: Edward Stirling
- Genre: Satire
This stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel debuted in November of 1838 at the Adelphi Theater in London. Only eight installments of the story had been published at that time, therefore several characters such as the theatrical Crummles family who play...
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III - François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III - François Rabelais
- Author: François Rabelais
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-century European society. It is lively, outrageous, and, at times, bawdy. This the third of the five volumes--all...
The Battle of the Books - Jonathan Swift
The Battle of the Books - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Satire
"The Battle of the Books" depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, "The Battle of the Books" has become...
