Category Archives: Satire
Absalom and Achitophel
Author(s): John Dryden John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is...
Business
Author(s): Ambrose Bierce LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Author(s): William Blake The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of...
The Lie (version 2)
Author(s): Sir Walter Raleigh LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of “The Lie” by Sir...
The Adventures of Master F.J.
Author(s): George Gascoigne This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair...
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
Author(s): Alice Duer Miller A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist...
John Donne’s Satires
Late Elizabethan readers opening John Donne’s satirical verses encountered something radically different from the smooth,...
Zadig or the Book of Fate
Author(s): Voltaire Zadig, ou La Destinée, (“Zadig, or The Book of Fate”) (1747) is a...
Zuleika Dobson
Author(s): Max Beerbohm A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford’ in...
What is Man? and Other Essays
Author(s): Mark Twain “What Is Man?”, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue...
Twilight Sleep
Author(s): Edith Wharton Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously...
Traveller from Altruria
Author(s): William Dean Howells Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere...
Vanity Fair
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by...
Ward No. 6
Author(s): Anton Chekhov The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella...
Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers
Author(s): Charles Macklin This “Afterpiece” – a short play to follow a main production –...
Yollop
Author(s): George Barr McCutcheon Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to...
Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)
Author(s): Voltaire “there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:”...
Turns About Town
Author(s): Robert Cortes Holliday Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and...
Widowers’ Houses
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant...
Three Dialogues
Author(s): Barry Pain Barry Pain is today best known for his ghost and horror stories,...
The Tysons
Long before modern psychological realism redefined late Victorian fiction, May Sinclair laid bare the systemic...
The Way of All Flesh
Author(s): Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel...
This Simian World
Author(s): Clarence Day Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents...
The Small House at Allington
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is...
The School for Husbands
Author(s): Molière In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this...
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman
Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald “Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world,...
The World of Fashion
Author(s): John Oxenford This Victorian-era dramedy was adapted by playwright/critic John Oxenford from Eugene Scribe...
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
Author(s): Mark Twain In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale...
The Westminster Alice
Author(s): Saki Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with _Alice...
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of...