Category Archives: Satire
Audiobook: Yollop
Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and
Audiobook: Acharnians (Billson Translation)
Loaded with cryptic, nearly indecipherable inside jokes and double entendres, this early comedy of Aristophanes
Audiobook: Penguin Island
The novel (original French title — L’Île des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature.
Audiobook: Crome Yellow
Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the
Audiobook: Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that
Audiobook: Devil’s Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction
Audiobook: Pickwick Papers
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the
Audiobook: Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery.
Audiobook: Zadig or the Book of Fate
Zadig, ou La Destinée, (“Zadig, or The Book of Fate”) (1747) is a famous novel
Audiobook: Greener Than You Think
Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping”
Audiobook: Aphorisms
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims
Audiobook: Erewhon
Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872.
Audiobook: Little Dorrit
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful
Audiobook: Voyage Out
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth;
Audiobook: Miss Mapp
E. F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories.
Audiobook: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English
Audiobook: Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream
From Alice in Blunderland: “Certain of our members claim that they have a right to
Audiobook: Zuleika Dobson
A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford’ in which the entire
Audiobook: Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and
Audiobook: House with the Green Shutters
The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas
Audiobook: Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2)
Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel
Audiobook: Idiot
The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single
Audiobook: Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer
Audiobook: Behind the Beyond
A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian
Audiobook: Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life
Audiobook: Dragon of Wantley
The “true” story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale
Audiobook: 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)
Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as “1601”, this is a
Audiobook: Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational