Satire
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading)
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George Gissing
Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they take in the young, outspoken Miss Louise Derrick as their guest. Shedding a …
Erewhon
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Samuel Butler
Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly d…
Trips to the Moon
Read by Ralph Snelson
Lucian Of Samosata
The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon…
Crome Yellow, Version 2
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Aldous Huxley
Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. T…
That Unfortunate Marriage
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Frances Eleanor Trollope
This is the funny, romantic, slightly tongue-in-cheek story of how little May Cheffington makes her way in the world despite being the sole …
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 1
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history an…
Greener Than You Think
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Ward Moore
Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course wh…
The Inspector-General
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Governor and Officials of a small provincial town in Russia are worried. They have received word that a Government Inspector is on his w…
The Crocodile
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the be…
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
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Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for hi…
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
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James De Mille
"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" is the most popular of James De Mille's works. It was serialized posthumously in…
The Miser
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Molière
The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon. His feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching househo…
Food-Free at Last: How I Learned to Eat Air
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Dr. Robert Jones MD PhD DDS ODD
Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air! In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you …
The Satyricon
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Gaius Petronius Arbiter
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,…
The Admirable Crichton
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J. M. Barrie
From the author of Peter Pan:Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties…
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
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Mark Twain
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…
The Misanthrope
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Molière
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the character…
The Westminster Alice
Read by Ruth Golding
Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
Rameau's Nephew
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Denis Diderot
Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire (French: Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde) is an imaginary philosophical conversation written b…