Satire
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…
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…
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 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
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 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…
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…
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…
Don Juan, or The Feast with the Statue
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Molière
Don Juan "contains, perhaps, more severe attacks upon hypocrisy than does even Tartuffe. It depicts the hero as a man who, rich, noble,…
Candida (version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, po…
Love is the Best Doctor
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Molière
Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is dr…
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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Tobias Smollett
Sir Launcelot Greaves goes around the country with his comic squire, trying to be a knight and perform good deeds. This novel is written in…
The Relentless City
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E. F. Benson
A satiric novel of manners written in Benson's classic style of gently poking fun at class structures and the people who fill them. This tim…
Slovenly Betsy
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Heinrich Hoffmann
Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…
The Battle of the Books
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Jonathan Swift
"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…
How to Make a Man of Consequence
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Mark Lemon
Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to …