![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Und ewig raunzen die Wiener 2
Eckdaten: Alfred Heinrich "Und ewig raunzen die Wiener" Eine etwas andere Stadtgeschichte Edition Vabene - www.vabene.at - 312 Seiten, Format 12 x 19,5 cm - broschiert - ISBN 978-3-85167-229-9 - € 21,90 Der Inhalt: Kaum eine andere Stadt hat wohl eine derart turbulente Geschichte wie unser Wien. Immer wieder, wie es im Text der Bundeshymne heißt, "heiß umfehdet, wild umstritten". Jahrhunderte lang Bastion des Römischen Reiches gegen die Germanenstämme nördlich der Donau, später Bollwerk ...
Keywords: Humor Wien Geschichte Wortwitz Literatur Satire
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| Und ewig raunzen die Wiener
Eckdaten: Alfred Heinrich "Und ewig raunzen die Wiener" Eine etwas andere Stadtgeschichte. Edition Vabene - www.vabene.at - 312 Seiten, Format 12 x 19,5 cm - broschiert - ISBN 978-3-85167-229-9 - € 21,90 Der Inhalt: Kaum eine andere Stadt hat wohl eine derart turbulente Geschichte wie unser Wien. Immer wieder, wie es im Text der Bundeshymne heißt, "heiß umfehdet, wild umstritten". Jahrhunderte lang Bastion des Römischen Reiches gegen die Germanenstämme nördlich der Donau, später Bollwerk...
Keywords: Wortwitz Wien Geschichte Humor Literatur Satire
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| Zadig, or the Book of Fate - Voltaire
LibriVox recording of Zadig, or the Book of Fate, by Voltaire. Zadig, ou La Destinée, ("Zadig, or The Book of Fate") (1747) is a famous novel written by Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does not attempt any historical accuracy, and some of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire's own day...
Keywords: philosophy; enlightenment; satire; audiobook; librivox
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| Damn! A Book of Calumny - H. L. Mencken
LibriVox recording of Damn! A Book of Calumny by H.L. Mencken. Read by Wasichu. Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; satire; Mencken
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| The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
LibriVox recording of The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a collection of dictionary-like definitions...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; satire; bierce
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| Faces and Places - Henry W. Lucy
LibriVox recording of Faces and Places by Henry W. Lucy. Read by Ruth Golding. Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as true today as when it was written. The travel tales A Night on a Mountain, Oysters and Arcachon, Easter on Les Avants, and Mosquitoes and Monaco provide an entertaining vi...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; essays; satire; travel
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| The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
LibriVox recording of The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. Read by Debra Lynn Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word gets out that he is ill, he finds himself surrounded by a throng of relatives that he despises, all hoping to get a piece of the pie. He allows himself to be taken under the wing of his obsequious and hypocritical cousin, Seth Pecksniff, who is more tha...
Keywords: audiobook; satire; charles; dickens; librivox
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| This Simian World - Clarence Day, Jr.
Librivox recording of This Simian World by Clarence Day, Jr. Read by Epistomolus. 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 dominant in our place. (summary by Epistomolus) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; humor; satire; evolution
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| Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm
LibriVox recording of Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm. Read by Termin Dyan. 'A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the Duke of Dorset falls hopelessly in love with Zuleika who is visiting her grandfather, the warden of Judas college, and ultimately commit mass suicide at the end of 'Eights Week' (Summary by Andy Minter) For more free audio books or to become a voluntee...
Keywords: audiobook; librivox; satire; oxford; suicide
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| Monday Supplement 7th July 2008 - www.notbornyesterday.org
Satire of UK Sunday newspaper coverage of current affairs -entertaining news information update
Keywords: media satire; political satire; Gordon Brown; Harriet Harman; G8 summit
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| Effing The Dog: The Podcast - Episode 3 - Mike Vardy
Interview with Scott Ohlgren, creator of "think drink" known as Brain Toniq; alterna-view of David B. Bohl's e-book "Your Life In Balance"; debut of new segment "Mann In Motion"; music by Jonathan Coulton.
Keywords: GTD; productivity; comedy; colbert; humor; organize; satire; lifehack
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| Comic Book Hating on the Planet of the Apes
The Comic Book Haters visit the far-flung future for a look at the Revolution on the Planet of the Apes. Also, Kyle Baker's Plastic Man.
Keywords: Comic Books; comic book haters; graphic novels; beer; satire; comedy
Downloads: 491 |
| Cranium Crap Podcast_Episode Eight - Mongo Slade
This week I discuss one of my experiences in Los Angeles. I was a non union extra.
Keywords: satire; comedy; entertainment; advice; sports; culture; philosophy; self help; money
Downloads: 26 |
| Weather Blues-Rockies are in the series - Michael Stone
Michael Stone and Susan Moore welcome the World's One and Only Blues Weather Man, Lead Bellie Louie. He's excited the Colorado Rockies made it to the World Series.
Keywords: michael stone; susan moore; weather blues; humor; satire
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| Citizens' Press Radio December 17, 2006 - Citizens' Press
Citizens' Press Radio broadcast on CHSR in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Keywords: Political Satire, Citizens' Press, CHSR, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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| Citizens Press Radio March 18, 2007 - Citizens' Press
The Citizens' Press Radio is a satirical news and views show put on my The Citizens' Press publishing group. The radio show is broadcast on CHSR FM in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Sundays at 6pm.
Keywords: Citizens' Press, Fredericton, New Brunswick, political, satire, radio, CHSR
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| Cranium Crap Podcast_Episode Ten - Mongo Slade
I know it's kinda late, but my thoughts on the Javon Walker incident. He needs to hire a new posse.
Keywords: satire; comedy; entertainment; advice; sports; culture; philosophy; self help; money
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| Some Misgivings - Gerry Dempsey
A new song composed and performed by Gerry Dempsey. About life after the bomb drops. Lyrics Some Misgivings My name is Harry, Dick or Tom. Somebody put me in control of the Bomb. I just sit by the phone and wait for the call So I can press the button and blow us all To Kingdom Come. Oh bury me in six feet of lead. I may be cold but I won't be dead. I'll be radiating poison into the atmosphere, Killing every living thing - In the northern hemisphere...
Keywords: Anti-War; anti-nuclear; environment; Satire
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| norelpref compendium #71, Spermons - norelpref
a concatenation of sound collage, audio slack, music and other sonic experimentation. Most shows are an hour or so in length. norelpref.com This show features repurposed sermons which become "spermons," and should be self-explanatory.
Keywords: sound collage; satire; music; cut-ups; dadaism; norelpref; spermons
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| The brothers Young - Wesley Young and Greg Young
Song written by Wesley Young. Produced, mixed, and backup vocals by Greg Young
Keywords: wormsign; greg young; gb young; country; alt; comedy; satire
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| Kickme by Roy Trumbull - Roy Trumbull
This is an orientation lecture for those who've just moved to a state where the residents all have a stake in their exploitation and mistreatment and are convinced that it's a good idea to get the short end of the stick in perpetuity.
Keywords: kickme; politics; kickme states; humor; satire; audio books; Roy Trumbull
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| And All The Earth A Grave - Roy Trumbull
A piece of black humor by Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp). Through a computer error the advertising manager for a casket company gets 100 times his normal budget and makes death the new cool thing. The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org.
Keywords: death; caskets; fantasy; black humor; satire; audio books; fiction
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| Citizens' Press Radio January 21, 2007 - Citizens' Press
The Citizens' Press Radio is a satirical news and views show put on my The Citizens' Press publishing group. The radio show is broadcast on CHSR FM in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Sundays at 6pm. More information is available at citizenspress.org or contact radio_at_citizenspress_dot_org
Keywords: Political Satire, Citizens' Press, CHSR, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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| Citizens' Press Radio January 1, 2007 - Citizens' Press
The Citizens' Press Radio is a satirical news and views show put on my The Citizens' Press publishing group. The radio show is broadcast on CHSR FM in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Sundays at 6pm. More information is available at citizenspress.org or contact radio_at_citizenspress_dot_org
Keywords: Political Satire, Citizens' Press, CHSR, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Downloads: 148
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| Cranium Crap Podcast_Episode Nine - Mongo Slade
This week I'll discuss how sleeping in your car can lead to enlightenment.
Keywords: satire; comedy; entertainment; advice; sports; culture; money; philosophy; self help
Downloads: 27 |
| Death of Democracy - Hens "37Hz" Zimmerman
This is the now somewhat famous Bush spoof called "Death of Democracy", which has been part of many podcasts to date via the Podsafe Music Network.
Keywords: bush; 37hz; breakbeat; satire; death of democracy; democracy; comedy
Downloads: 1,137
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| Firesign Theatre podcasting - Firesign Theatre
The Grammy-nominated anarcho-satiric comedy troupe Firesign Theatre offers audio clips from their new and classic albums and radio performances. The Future Fair! You may already be there!
Keywords: Firesign Theatre; Firesign Theater; Firesign; comedy; satire; humor
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| Firesign Theatre podcasting - Firesign Theatre
The Grammy-nominated anarcho-satiric comedy troupe Firesign Theatre offers audio clips from their new and classic albums and radio performances. The Future Fair! You may already be there!
Keywords: Firesign Theatre; Firesign Theater; Firesign; comedy; satire; humor
Downloads: 53,745
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| Fables In Slang by George Ade - Roy Trumbull
George Ade was a newspaper man from Indiana who made his mark in Chicago writing about the common man. His "Fables In Slang" elevated him above the fate of scribes (news reporters) and into the rarified atmosphere of syndication. The Fable of Why Sweetie Flew the Track The Fable of Why Essie's Tall Friend Got the Fresh Air The Fable of the Michigan Counterfeit Who Wasn't One Thing or the Other The Fable of the Corporation Director and the Mislaid Ambition
Keywords: audio books; humor; satire; George Ade; Fables In Slang
Downloads: 346
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| Greg Young - Love songs from the doublewide - greg young
Alt country satire. Recorded in the wee hours at blackwells dungeon. Thanks buddy.
Keywords: wormsign; greg young; gb young; country; alt; comedy; satire
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| I Bought Some Soda (Pepsi iTunes Spoof) - Jim Younkin
Length: 30 sec. This was written for a short film I made on how to always win a free song in Pepsi's "Win Free iTunes Giveaway" kicked off at the SuperBowl 2004. The music is inspired by the song on the Pepsi commercial played duiring the Superbowl.
Keywords: Humour; Satire; Pop Punk; Cover / Remake; TV Commercial
Downloads: 1,310
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| Inside the Comic Book Haters Studio Episode 5 - DJ Whip Cream
Umbrellaman returns to the Comic Book Haters' studio with an exclusive interview with forum member DJ Whip Cream.
Keywords: comic books; batman; ganga; umbrellaman; beer; satire; interview
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| Labyrinth Library 40: Lords and Ladies - Chris Gladis
Review of "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett
Keywords: book review; Terry Pratchett; Discworld; fantasy; elves; witches; humor; satire
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| Miss Moose Meat - Roy Trumbull
copyright 2008 by Roy Trumbull A young lady is proud of the fact she was named Miss Moose Meat at a beauty contest in Alaska. In fact she never fails to mention the fact, much to the chagrin of her brother. It acts as a boy friend screening process. If a guy is still interested after he hears the tale, then maybe he's the one.
Keywords: Alaska; moose; satire; love; beauty contest; love; college; Roy Trumbull
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| The Oppenheimer Concerto Part I - The Aurigami Project
01 Serpent Activity for 1945.07.15 02 The Last Sunday of Ordinary Time 03 The Rape of Sophia 04 First Revelation of the Holy Trinity 05 Serpent Activity for 1945.08.05 06 The Radiance of A Thousand Suns 07 The Prometheus Waltz 08 The Flowers of Mercury 09 Ich Bin Ein Stockholmer
Keywords: electronic; ambient. classical; historical; satire; dark; aurigami; oppenheimer; concerto
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| RevBob on Fundamentalism - RevBob.com
Keywords: funny; comedy; religion; humor; parody; satire; fundamentalism; tongues
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| Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock
LibriVox recording of Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, by Stephen Leacock. "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." Like that work, it is a sequence of interlocking stories set in one town, but instead of focusing on a small Canadian town in the countryside, it is set in a major American metropolis and its characters are the upper crust of...
Keywords: fiction; humor; satire; stephen; leacock; rich; wealthy
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| The Big Bow Mystery - Israel Zangwill
LibriVox recording of The Big Bow Mystery, by Israel Zangwill. Read by Adrian Praetzellis. It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says, "one sublimely simple solution" that is revealed in a final chapter full of revelations and a shocking denouement...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; mystery; zangwill; england; satire
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| Business - Ambrose Bierce
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This was the weekly poetry project for August 2nd, 2009. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; poetry; satire; banking; finance
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| The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. LibriVox recording of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, by Tobias Smollett. Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six different characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire; his sister Tabitha; their niece and nephew, Jery and Lydia Melford; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins; and...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; comedy; satire; smollett
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| Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
LibriVox recording of Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. Read by Lizzie Driver. Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature...
Keywords: LibriVox; literature; audiobook; swift; gulliver; satire; parody
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| History of a Life - Barry Cornwall
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall). This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 18th, 2009. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: Humor, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Satire; librivox; audiobook
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| Lady Susan - Jane Austen
LibriVox recording of Lady Susan, by Jane Austen. Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and searches for suitable husbands for herself and her young daughter, the actual action shares its importance with Austen’s manipulation of her characters' behavior by means of their reactions to the letters t...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; austen; epistolary; romance; satire
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| Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
LibriVox recording of Love and Freindship [sic], by Jane Austen. Read by Cori Samuel. Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love," which neatly undercuts the title...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; austen; satire; romance; parody
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| Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
LibriVox recording of Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen. Mansfield Park features Austen's frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she's just old enough to fully appreciate the shame of her circumstances. Without pride or prejudice, Fanny sticks to principles in all matters. And matters certainly put her to the test...
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; austen; romance; satire
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| Penguin Island - Anatole France
LibriVox recording of Penguin Island, by Anatole France. Read by Michael Sirois. This novel (original French title -- L'Île des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature. The first publication was in 1908. These penguins are mistaken for humans by the 97-year-old priest, Father Mael, because of his bad eyesight. He baptizes them, and once baptized, they have no choice but to become human. They take on human traits (build civilizations, go to war, etc.)...
Keywords: LibriVox; literature; audiobook; satire; france; penguins
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| The Proposal - Anton Chekhov
LibriVox recording of The Proposal, by Anton Chekhov, translated by Julius West. The Proposal is a one act comic farce by Anton Chekhov. In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a means of economic stability for most people. They married to gain wealth and possessions. In this play, the concept of marriage is being satirized to show the real purpose of marriage - materialistic gain rather than true love. (Summary with reference to Wikipedia) Characters: Stepan Stepanovich Chubukov - read by John Edding...
Keywords: Play; comedy; satire; farce; Librivox; literature; audiobook
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| The Sincere Huron - Voltaire
LibriVox recording of The Sincere Huron, by Voltaire. Read by Roy Schreiber. 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, as well as the folly and injustices of French society(Summary from Wikipedia). For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; satire; innocent savage
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| Trips to the Moon - Lucian of Samosata
The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writing History, and then caricatured in his True History, wherein is contained the account of a trip to the moon, a piece which must have been enjoyed by Rabelais, which suggested to Cyrano de Bergerac his Voyages to the Moon and to the Sun, and insensibly contributed, perhaps, directly or through Berg...
Keywords: libriVox; audio books; fiction; satire; adventure
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| Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2) - John Kendrick Bangs
LibriVox recording of Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream, by John Kendrick Bangs. Read by Lars Rolander. John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) 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 Carroll's “Alice in Wonderland” and lets her on a boring day travel with the Mad Hatter, the Mar...
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; humor; satire; state control; government; surveillance; political satire; economic satire; individual liberty; public ownership; private ownership; civil liberties
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