Satire

The History of Pompey the Little

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Francis Coventry


"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 e…

History of a Life

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Barry Cornwall


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall). This was the Weekly Poetry…

The Despairing Lover

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William Walsh


LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, …

The Family of Love

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Thomas Middleton, Lording Barry and Thomas Dekker


The Family of Love is an early Jacobean city comedy, first published in 1608. Published anonymously, the play was long attributed to Thomas …

The New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House

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William Hurrell Mallock


A group of upper class men and women gather together in an English country house to discuss their ideas for a utopia (their "New Republ…

The Blunderer, or The Counterplots

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Molière


A very early Moliere. From the Translator: "In this piece the plot is carried on ... by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first origina…

You Never Can Tell

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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 l…

Orlando. A Biography (version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

This Simian World

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Clarence Day


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…

Merry Autumn

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 10t…

Bill Nye and Boomerang; Or the Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literar…

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Bill Nye


Humorist Bill Nye was the first editor of the daily paper in Laramie, Wyoming, and named it the Laramie Boomerang in honor of his mule. As …

O Hollow Hollow Hollow

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W. S. Gilbert


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 201…

The Judgment of Eve

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May Sinclair


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 Judgmen…

The Golden Days of Good Queen Bess

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Sir John Carr


LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Parody on "The Golden Days of good Queen Bess" by Sir John Carr. This was the Fortni…

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

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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…

The History of Troilus and Cressida (version 2)

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William Shakespeare


The History of Troilus and Cressida has long baffled critics and audiences alike for its inconsistent tone, which ranges from bawdy comedy t…

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