Satire
Lady Susan
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
Hard Times
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Charles Dickens
Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flat…
The Pickwick Papers
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Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publicat…
Dubliners (Version 2)
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James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle cl…
Mansfield Park
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Jane Austen
Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie…
What is Man? and Other Essays
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Mark Twain
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involve…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
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H. G. Wells
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Lady Windermere's Fan
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Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893. As in some of his other comedies, W…
The Dragon Of Wantley (version 2)
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Owen Wister
A novel, The Dragon of Wantley, was written by Owen Wister (best known as the author of The Virginian) in 1892. Published by Lipincott Press…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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William Blake
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors…
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as "1601", this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain,…
Gorgias
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Plato
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …
Crome Yellow
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Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story…
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Mark Twain
In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…
The Way We Live Now
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Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. It was reg…
A Modest Proposal
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…
Vanity Fair
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like man…