127 Results for : satiric

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    Vile Bodies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 351min
    A satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1930. Set in England between the wars, the novel examines the frenetic but empty lives of the Bright Young Things, young people who indulge in constant party-going, heavy drinking, and promiscuous sex. At the novel's end, the realities of the world intrude, with Adam Fenwick-Symes, the protagonist, serving on a battlefield at the onset of another world war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Hardy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001041/bk_twuk_001041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Grey Area , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 498min
    Will Self, whom the Los Angeles Times calls "the hottest young novelist in England", demonstrates his razor-sharp wit in these nine new stories. Self's method depends upon taking an ordinary aspect of the world and then pushing it to its limit in furious absurdity. The short stories in Grey Area reflect the technical brilliance and satiric voice that have made him one of the most highly praised comic writers in a decade. These are stories that delve into the modern psyche with unsettling and darkly satiric results. "Inclusion" tells the story of a doctor who is illegally testing a new antidepressant made from bee excrement. "A Short History of the English Novel" brings us face to face with a pompous publisher who is greeted at every turn by countless rejected authors. In "The End of the Relationship", a woman who has been left by her boyfriend provokes - like some emotional Typhoid Mary - that same reaction among all the couples she goes to for comfort. The narrator of "Between the Conceits" declares without hesitation that London is controlled by only eight individuals, and, thankfully, he is one of them. Self's world in these pieces is both curiously familiar and hauntingly strange. Published to critical acclaim in England, Grey Area is a dazzling collection by one of the most talented and original writers of his generation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gemma Dawson, Ralph Lister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021856/bk_adbl_021856_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Snow White , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 216min
    An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life. As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Donald Barthelme's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview – where James Atlas interviews Tracy Daugherty about the life and work of Donald Barthelme – begins as soon as the audiobook ends. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000889/bk_adbl_000889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    POLKA DOT TUXEDO
    POLKA DOT TUXEDO ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: Short Satiric Plays and Poems. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    EarthLove
    EarthLove ab 28.99 € als Taschenbuch: Chronicles of the Rainforest War A Satiric Borneo Eco-Adventure. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    A Modest Proposal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min
    Wickedly narrated by David Stifel, and written in 1729, this satiric essay on how to solve Ireland's chronic poverty is perhaps more shocking today than when it was written. In the 1960s, when Peter O'Toole did a public reading of this piece in Dublin, he very nearly started a riot. Newspapers the following day lambasted O'Toole's "shocking bad taste." Whether shocking satire, or Monty-Pythonesque surrealism, this essay has continually managed to offend people for well over 3 centuries. Enjoy! (and Thank You!) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Stifel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/000392/bk_mike_000392_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gulliver's Travels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
    Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him further insight into human behavior. Presented through Swift's satiric hall of distorting mirrors, mankind is cast as diminished, magnified, and bestial - the composite of which is an uncompromising reflection of human nature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001910/bk_drms_001910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Rising Sun V3
    The Rising Sun V3 ab 24.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Serio-Comic Satiric Romance (1807). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    The Misled General
    The Misled General ab 23.99 € als Taschenbuch: A Seriocomic Satiric Mock-Heroic Romance (1808). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    The House of Mirth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 817min
    The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a decorative object, becomes an incisive commentary on the nature and status of women in that society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Fields. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000960/bk_blak_000960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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