Fiction - Satire

Here's the brilliantl BBC radio version of George Orwell's 1984 circa 1965 Starring Patrick Troughton as Winston Smith. Nineteen Eighty-Four, sometimes . Duration - 4h 43m. Author - George Orwell. Narrator - Patrick Troughton. Published Date - Sunday,...

A back-alley brawl between the furries and the bronies.Deadpool cosplayer keeps stealing all the erotic pegasus artwork.Someone's necronomicon opened a tentacle portal in the men’s room.Two cops go undercover at a comic-book convention to stop Wil...

Magic, Dragons, Celebrity LARPing…...and a sack full of meth ferrets.Farnsworth and Diego are back, leading the newly appointed Division of Nerd Crime into the black heart of the regional Renaissance Festival where someone has stolen celebrity D&D...

Not Yet Available Author - Ambrose Bierce. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

Nukes ended most of society. Now all that's left is taxes.Arthur McDowell works for the most indestructible employer left in post-apocalyptic America: the IRS. Safe and sound inside a government bunker, Arthur is proud to be just another drone. But...

A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. With a fanciful mix of points of view, we hear...

Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of...

Experience one of the most jarring and influential satirical essays in this InAudio production of A Modest Proposalby Jonathan Swift.In one of the most well-known works of satire, Jonathan Swift puts forth a “modest proposal.” Swift begins by...

The ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union soldier, has been displaced from the home he had been haunting. Enlisting the aid of a "haunting agent," he finds a new residence that has the requisite dark history and terrible secret...

In Edgar Allan Poe's "A Predicament," readers are invited into a delightful world where humor meets satire in a masterful narrative. Set in a bustling 19th-century town square, this whimsical tale follows a hapless gentleman who finds himself...

A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is...

Wendy Tate has had it! With three divorces under her belt, she seeks both solace and an income source. Why not yoga instruction? With many years of a practice, she could open her own studio, but must first acquire a teaching certificate. The ashram...

This audio book features a trilogy of interlinked stories: "About Truth", "About Freedom", "About Love". Read in English, unabridged, and accompanied by orchestral music based on original compositions of Dvorak. In "About Love", Anton Chekhov explores...

John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by King David (2 Samuel 14-18) to mirror that faced by Charles II. Each monarch had a son whom a high-ranking...

Loaded with cryptic, nearly indecipherable inside jokes and double entendres, this early comedy of Aristophanes has a simple, anti-war premise that resounds down the centuries. On flimsy pretexts, greedy politicians have embroiled the nation of Athens...

God is dead. Killer at large.In a world filled with powerful witches and wizards, Professor Marcus Orren is about as magical as your average brick, leading to a life of rampant cynicism coupled with mild-to-moderate alcohol abuse.While his...

From Alice in Blunderland:"Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--""Mercy!" cried Alice, "Why, that is--that is terrible.""It certainly is," said the March Hare ruefully, it's rotten. Here I've been...

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 summary: J K Bangs has taken Alice from Lewis...

This is a book summary and analysis of the original title.All the Worst Humans by Phil Elwood is a darkly comedic novel that explores the most flawed and morally ambiguous sides of humanity. Through a collection of intertwined stories, the book...

White Lotus meets Shaun of the Dead in this absurdist take on the wellness retreat.Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, find themselves on an island wellness retreat impersonating the Dhaliwals, who have probably been killed in a...

The American dream is dead, and Los Angeles is burning. Stoned and porn-addicted surfer Baxter Kent is terrified of women and anxious to make things work with a sex robot. Acid junkie Arden Coover has a useless philosophy degree and a doomed...

Arianh had one wish.Yewlow made it real.And Time turned it into a regret.Anachrony takes you on a journey to the bleak future of Aegea and the darkest places of the mind.Can fate be avoided or is the future just someone else's past? Duration - 2h 11m....

And Lead Us Not is a comic novel about Wally Zeringue, a high school drop-out who becomes President of the Untied States.Wally has enemies - among them, Dan Bitterman, a former classmate who is now a reporter for the President's hometown weekly...

This is a special, abridged audiobook edition of Animal Farm. It is intended for intermediate English-language students (CEFR: level B1/B2).The audiobook is a simplified version of the classic story by English writer George Orwell. It is abridged by...