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J. M. Barrie - Admirable Crichton

From the author of Peter Pan: Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the...

2 hours 45 minutes

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General Fiction

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Herman Melville - Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The...

mb 10 hours 56 minutes

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Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age , commonly given to the era,...

TriciaG and 19 more 17 hours 8 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known...

JuliaY and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

Francis Coventry - History of Pompey the Little

«Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages.» At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress by Hillario, an...

TriciaG and 10 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

John Kendrick Bangs - Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2)

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Wikipedia) Plot...

Lars Rolander 1 hour 56 minutes

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Satire

892

Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey

Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 23 minutes

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General Fiction

Henry Fielding - History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and...

Denny Sayers 10 hours 17 minutes

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Poetry

Ambrose Bierce - Business

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This was the weekly poetry project for August 2nd, 2009.

Annise and 16 more 24 minutes

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Satire

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Voltaire - Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu)

L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to the sophistication of eighteenth century Paris, and satirizes religious doctrine,...

Roy Schreiber 2 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns

The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church....

Bellona Times and 6 more 8 hours 18 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

898

Clarence Day - This Simian World

Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence, but rather one of the other species had become...

Epistomolus 1 hour 46 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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