Satire

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

Read by Kevin Green


Robert Smith Surtees


Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …

The Red Room

Read by William Peck


August Strindberg


A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…

Favole di Jean de La Fontaine: Libro 11

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Jean de la Fontaine


Nei 12 volumi delle "Favole" (1669 - 1693) Jean de La Fontaine rinnovò la tradizione esopica, rappresentando la commedia um…

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

A Deal With The Devil

Read by Angelique G. Campbell


Eden Phillpotts


A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…

The School for Husbands

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Molière


In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …

In the Sweet Dry and Dry

Read by Daryl Wor


Christopher Morley


Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…

The Devil is an Ass

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Ben Jonson


An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Sq…

Antymonachomachia

Read by Piotr Nater


Ignacy Krasicki


Poemat opowiada o reakcjach mnichów do których klasztoru Niezgoda podrzuciła Monachomachię. Pozornie odwołując zarzuty wypowie…

The Priceless Pearl

Read by Nancy Halper


Alice Duer Miller


Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office jobs for being "too beautiful" and thereby causing all the men to …

Святочные рассказы, том 2

Read by Mark Chulsky


Nikolai Leskov


Николай Семёнович Лесков, русский писатель и публицист, из-за своих оригинальных и принципиальных взглядов был не принят по достоинству в ли…

Favole di Jean de La Fontaine: Libro 10

Read by Paolo Fedi


Jean de la Fontaine


Nei 12 volumi delle "Favole" (1669 - 1693) Jean de La Fontaine rinnovò la tradizione esopica, rappresentando la commedia um…

Favole di Jean de La Fontaine: Libro 06

Read by Paolo Fedi


Jean de la Fontaine


Nei 12 volumi delle "Favole" (1669 - 1693) Jean de La Fontaine rinnovò la tradizione esopica, rappresentando la commedia um…

Favole di Jean de La Fontaine: Libro 08

Read by Paolo Fedi


Jean de la Fontaine


Nei 12 volumi delle "Favole" (1669 - 1693) Jean de La Fontaine rinnovò la tradizione esopica, rappresentando la commedia um…

Gullivers Rejser

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Jonathan Swift


Denne udgivelse af Gullivers Rejser indeholder 1. bog - Rejse til Lilliput og 2. bog - Rejse til Brobdingnag kæmpernes land. Oprindeli…

Favole di Jean de La Fontaine: Libro 07

Read by Paolo Fedi


Jean de la Fontaine


Nei 12 volumi delle "Favole" (1669 - 1693) Jean de La Fontaine rinnovò la tradizione esopica, rappresentando la commedia um…

Mary Broome

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Allan Monkhouse


Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 2

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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…

The Curtezan Unmasked

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Anonymous


"The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men i…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…

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