Satire

The Princess Pourquoi

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Margaret P. Sherwood


Once upon a time, a princess was born, and a fairy cursed her with a mind: "She is a woman-child, and yet she shall think. She shall be…

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

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Lucian Of Samosata


The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian autho…

The Importance of Being Earnest (version 5)

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Oscar Wilde


In this most popular of all Oscar Wilde’s plays, two fashionable bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, discover that each has bee…

Headlong Hall (dramatic reading)

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Thomas Love Peacock


Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 (dated 1816). As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock asse…

Satires and Profanities

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George William Foote


"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought,…

The Glugs of Gosh

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C. J. Dennis


First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs…

Сказки

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Сказочный цикл Салтыкова-Щедрина создавался писателем на протяжении 18 лет - с 1869 по 1886 год.Каждая из сказок Щедрина — законченное произ…

The Holiday Round

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A. A. Milne


Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…

The Celebrity

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Winston Churchill


Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler

Золотой теленок

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Илья Ильф, Евгений Петров


Год выпуска: 2011 г. Автор: Илья Ильф, Евгений Петров Исполнитель: Алексей Кортнев, Алексей Багдасаров Жанр: юмор, сатира Издательство: Вимб…

Bauerngeselchtes

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Adam Karrillon


Adam Karrillon (1853-1938) war Arzt und Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Heimatromane aus dem Odenwald sowie durch Reiseerzä…

A Family of Noblemen

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…

The Old Debauchees

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Henry Fielding


Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other chara…

Luces de bohemia

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Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Ramón Del Valle-Inclán


Luces de Bohemia es probablemente la obra más conocida de Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. Este gallego, genio y fi…

Remarks

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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

A Bayard from Bengal

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F. Anstey


The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manne…

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

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Francis Beaumont


The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts, first performed in 1607. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English…

Юмористические рассказы

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Диккенс Чарльз


Знаменитый английский прозаик Чарльз Диккенс вошёл в мировую литературу не только как величайший романист, но и как замечательный юморист и …

Behind the Beyond

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Stephen Leacock


A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia…

Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading)

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Jane Austen


Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen years old. Although the novels Austen becam…

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