Satire
Indian Summer
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
William Dean Howells
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.
Read by James K. White
Washington Irving
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Wash…
The House with the Green Shutters
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George Douglas Brown
The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in m…
The Red Room
Read by William Peck
August Strindberg
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
Read by Kevin Green
Robert Smith Surtees
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
The Priceless Pearl
Read by Nancy Halper
Alice Duer Miller
Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office jobs for being "too beautiful" and thereby causing all the men to …
A Deal With The Devil
Read by Angelique G. Campbell
Eden Phillpotts
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…
The School for Husbands
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Molière
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …
The Devil is an Ass
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Ben Jonson
An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Sq…
Lucian's True History
Read by Terry Kroenung
Lucian of Samosata and Lucian Of Samosata
One of the earliest works of science-fiction (nearly 2,000 years old). It has space travel (including war in space), lunar civilization, and…
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Read by Daryl Wor
Christopher Morley
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 2
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history an…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)
Read by Linda Olsen Fitak
Edwin Abbott Abbott
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 Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…
The Curtezan Unmasked
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
William James Mcglothlin
"The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men i…
Mary Broome
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Allan Monkhouse
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…
The Adventures of Master F.J.
Read by Grant Hurlock
George Gascoigne
This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married…
The School for Wives
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Molière
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations …
Bill Nye's Cordwood
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Bill Nye
From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…