Satire

Bauerngeselchtes

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Adam Karrillon


Adam Karrillon (1853-1938) war Arzt und Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Heimatromane aus dem Odenwald sowie durch Reiseerzä…

A Family of Noblemen

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…

The Old Debauchees

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Henry Fielding


Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other chara…

Remarks

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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

Luces de bohemia

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Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Ramón Del Valle-Inclán


Luces de Bohemia es probablemente la obra más conocida de Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. Este gallego, genio y fi…

A Bayard from Bengal

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F. Anstey


The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manne…

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

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Francis Beaumont


The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts, first performed in 1607. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English…

Behind the Beyond

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Stephen Leacock


A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia…

Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading)

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Jane Austen


Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen years old. Although the novels Austen becam…

Don Juan, or The Feast with the Statue

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Molière


Don Juan "contains, perhaps, more severe attacks upon hypocrisy than does even Tartuffe. It depicts the hero as a man who, rich, noble,…

Candida (version 2)

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George Bernard Shaw


This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, po…

Love is the Best Doctor

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Molière


Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is dr…

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

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Tobias Smollett


Sir Launcelot Greaves goes around the country with his comic squire, trying to be a knight and perform good deeds. This novel is written in…

Slovenly Betsy

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Heinrich Hoffmann


Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…

The Battle of the Books

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Jonathan Swift


"The Battle of the Books" depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of…

Байки Леонiда Глiбова (Fables by Glibov)

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Leonid Hlibov


Леонід Глібов набув слави за свої оригінальні байки на української мові. Вiн відомий як один із засновників української літератури для дітей…

How to Make a Man of Consequence

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Mark Lemon


Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to …

The Relentless City

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E. F. Benson


A satiric novel of manners written in Benson's classic style of gently poking fun at class structures and the people who fill them. This tim…

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