Satire
H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor
Read by David Wales
W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…
Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles
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Godfrey Sweven
John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Int…
Mornings at Bow Street
Read by Chris Caron
John Wight
This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces o…
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Finley Peter Dunne
In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin …
The Lie (version 2)
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Sir Walter Raleigh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "The Lie" by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period begin…
A Collection of Letters (Dramatic Reading)
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Jane Austen
A Collection of Letters is an epistolary short story collection written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels …
Turns About Town
Read by Tom Penn
Robert Cortes Holliday
Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genu…
The Physician In Spite of Himself
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Molière
The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refr…
The Love-Tiff
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Molière
"The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from …
Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen
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F. Anstey
These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine. From the p…
John Donne's Satires
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Donne
Donne’s StyleIn John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology…
The Weaker Sex
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mrs. Boyle-Chewton and her cause - the Advancement of Women from the Rear to the Van. Lady Vivash, new recruit to the cause. Their daughter…
The Green Carnation
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Robert Smythe Hichens
The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based o…
Orlando, A Biography (version 2)
Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…
The Impromptu of Versailles
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Molière
The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they ha…
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
Read by Hannah F
Jane Collier
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting was a conduct book written by Jane Collier and published in 1753. The Essay was Collier's firs…
The Magnificent Lovers
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Molière
"The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment wh…
A Treatise of Religion
Read by Michael Armenta
Fulke Greville
Part diatribe, part discourse, part sermon and part stand-up comedy, this is Fulke Greville's 114 stanza, verse-poem about religious hypocri…
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III
Read by Jim Locke
François Rabelais
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…