Satire
The Weaker Sex
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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 daughter…
The Green Carnation
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Robert Smythe Hichens
The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based o…
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…
The Impromptu of Versailles
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Molière
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 ha…
A Treatise of Religion
Read by Michael Armenta
Fulke Greville
Part diatribe, part discourse, part sermon and part stand-up comedy, this is Fulke Greville's 114 stanza, verse-poem about religious hypocri…
The Magnificent Lovers
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Molière
"The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment wh…
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III
Read by Jim Locke
François Rabelais
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
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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 firs…
Not That it Matters (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…
The Disagreeable Man
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W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. Gilbert. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 1…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 054
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Various
Diese Sammlungsreihe erscheint unregelmäßig und umfasst 10 verschiedene deutschsprachige Prosatexte. Die Texte wurden von LibriVo…
Bob & Ray WOR #124 August 30, 1973
Unknown
Mr and Mrs Broadway show, Henry Gladstone and the Sophisticates Thursday, 08/30/1973
The History Of Lady Barton
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Elizabeth Griffith
This is the story of the three Cleveland siblings: Fanny, the innocent yet very sympathetic sister; Louisa, the strong willed sister whose m…
Orlando, A Biography (version 2)
Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…
Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
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Laurence Oliphant
Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spir…
Three Dialogues
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Barry Pain
Barry Pain is today best known for his ghost and horror stories, but he could also write some excellent social satire. This series of three …
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
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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 bi…
De Kermis der IJdelheid
Read by Marcel Coenders
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero" is een in de jaren 1847-1848 gepubliceerde roman van William Makepeace Thackeray, een satire…