Satire

The Westminster Alice

by Saki Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…

The Voyage Out

by Virginia Woolf Read by Lynne T 4.1
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voy…

The Tysons

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.3
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the st…

Tono-Bungay

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…

The Island Pharisees

by John Galsworthy Read by Simon Evers 4.1
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…

And Even Now

by Max Beerbohm Read by Kirsten Wever 4.3
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…

Penguin Island

by Anatole France Read by Michael Sirois 4.8
The novel (original French title -- L'Île des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature. The first publication was in 1908. These penguin…

Non-Combatants and Others

by Rose Macaulay Read by Anthony Ogus 5
Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulay's satirical no…

The Wit and Humor of America

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Wit and Humor of America is a delightful collection that showcases the rich tapestry of American wit through a variety of short stories …

Imaginotions

by Tudor Jenks Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are no…

Candide ou L'optimisme

by Voltaire Read by Bernard 4.5
Candide vivait paisible et innocent chez le baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh, en Westphalie. Dans son château, le précepteur Panglo…

Alice in Blunderland

by John Kendrick Bangs Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016) 4.6
John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that set…

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens Read by Mongope 4.7
Esta obra narra la vida de David Copperfield desde su infancia hasta la madurez. El padre de David muere seis meses antes de que él n…

2 B R 0 2 B

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, su…

Zuleika Dobson

by Max Beerbohm Read by Termin Dyan 4.3
A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the …

Twilight Sleep

by Edith Wharton Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.2
Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…

Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are

by Elizabeth Inchbald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This Restoration-Era comedy of manners satirizes the hypocrisy, gamesmanship, and imbalance of power inherent in the institution of marriage…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin Abbott Abbott Read by Linda Olsen Fitak 4.6
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…

The Paying Guest

by George Gissing Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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 …

Ginx's Baby

by Edward Jenkins Read by Lisa Reichert 4.6
In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from near…

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