Satire

Gulliver's Travels

Read by Lizzie Driver


Jonathan Swift


Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is b…

Emma

Read by Sherry Crowther


Jane Austen


Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and f…

Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25)

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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…

Love and Freindship

Read by Cori Samuel


Jane Austen


Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling…

Fables de La Fontaine, livre 01

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Jean de la Fontaine


Voici le premier des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et ont été enregistr&eacu…

Northanger Abbey

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Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “hor…

Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Read by Ruth Golding


Arnold Bennett


Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …

The Alchemist

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Ben Jonson


An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of …

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Read by Steve Andersen


Mark Twain


Come and hear the strange tale of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds …

Münchhausen

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Gottfried August Bürger


Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande - Feldzüge und lustige Abenteuer des Freiherrn von Münchhausen,wie er dieselben bei der F…

The Idiot

Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)


John Kendrick Bangs


The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creati…

2 B R 0 2 B (Dramatic Reading)

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


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

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

Read by Ruth Golding


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…

Woe from Wit [Горе от ума]

Read by Irina Grinberg


Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov


Woe from Wit (Russian: Горе от ума, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe" and so forth) is Alexander Gri…

What is Man? and Other Essays

Read by John Greenman


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…

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