142 Results for : satirist

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    Choke, Hörbuch, Digital, 430min
    Victor Mancini, a medical school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: He pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual-addiction-recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.  Language: English. Narrator: Chuck Palahniuk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhau/000111/bk_rhau_000111_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Moonlit Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-circa 1914) was an American author, journalist, short story writer and satirist who disappeared in 1913 under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again. "The Moonlit Road" is a brilliant and eerie ghost story which recounts a terrible murder of a woman from three different viewpoints: first from the perspective of the son of the murdered woman; second from the perspective of the murderer - the woman's husband, whose brain has been so afflicted by the experience that he has amnesia and does not know his true identity; and third from the posthumous perspective of the victim as told via a medium. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001029/bk_redd_001029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Speck on the Lens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 19min
    John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was a popular American author, editor and satirist. 'The Speck on the Lens' is the story of an occulist who is approached by an unusual character holding a strange tin box. He introduces himself as the inventor of a special telescopic device with very unusual properties...but it is accessible only to someone with a very unique type of eye. The oculist, he says, has this kind of eye. The doctor puts the device to his eye and is astounded by what he sees. But then he perceives a strange speck on the lens...and things take a weird turn.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000804/bk_redd_000804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Vine on a House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 8min
    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-circa 1914) was an American author, journalist, short story writer and satirist who disappeared in 1913 under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again.   A Vine on a House is a classic Gothic haunted house story. The old abandoned Harding house, which is now overgrown by an unusual vine, has a strange and sinister story behind it. Years before, the mother of the household disappeared suddenly. Two years later the family abandoned the house. More recent visitors have discovered the vine growing up the front of the house behaving very oddly. Finally the local authorities decide to dig up the vine.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001695/bk_redd_001695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air Archive, Al Franken and Richard Price, Hörbuch, Digital, 41min
    Satirist Al Franken and screenwriter and novelist Richard Price on this archive edition of Fresh Air. For 15 years, Franken was a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creating such well-loved characters as Stuart Smalley (author of I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!). He was the coordinating producer of SNL Presidential Bash 2000. Richard Price's books include The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, and Clockers, which was a National Book Critic Circle Award nominee. He was also nominated for an Academy Award in 1986 for his screenplay of The Color of Money. (Original Broadcast Dates: October 31, 2000 and May 9, 1995) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/020412/rt_whyy_020412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    2 B R 0 2 B and the Big Trip Up Yonder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 43min
    Two classic short stories from American literature's most beloved science fiction satirist, Kurt Vonnegut Jr."2 B R 0 2 B" (pronounced: to be or not to be), was first published in 1962, and introduces the listener to a future where old age has been cured, population control has been implemented to keep the United States population at exactly 40 million, and death is voluntary."The Big Trip Up Yonder" was published in 1954, and is similarly themed (old age has been cured), but in opposite. This story follows the Ford family who has 23 members spanning several generations all living together in a small one bedroom apartment under the tyrannical head of the family, "Gramps". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Ostrander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002901/bk_mike_002901_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Her Deceit: A Tale of Love, Betrayal and Redemption , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
    Naomi Winters was a woman with a mission: to finally establish herself in a career as a writer. She had sworn to herself that she would never let anything stand in her way. Her heart, which would become a cold and ruthless one, was 100% on board with the plan. And so it wouldn't have surprised anyone that, when she stumbled across a true-blue, steadfast heart (so unlike her own,) that dared to unfold itself in front of her, revealing its innermost hopes and dreams - well, that too would simply have to be sacrificed. Sacrificed to the unfeeling god that was her aspiration for the life of a brilliant satirist. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bailey Varness. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021831/bk_acx0_021831_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Chronicles of Clovis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min
    A masterful collection of 28 short stories by Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym “Saki”. The Chronicles of Clovis includes many of Saki’s best known tales, exemplifying his witty and multi-layered storytelling, satirizing the habits and morals of British society of his day.Esme The Match-Maker TobermoryMrs. Packletide's TigerThe Stampeding of Lady BastableThe Background Hermann the IrascibleThe Unrest-CureThe Jesting of Arlington StringhamSredni VashtarAdrian The ChapletThe QuestWratislavThe Easter EggFilboid StudgeThe Music on the HillThe Story of St. VespaluusThe Way to the DairyThe Peace OfferingThe Peace of Mowsle BartonThe Talking-out of TarringtonThe Hounds of FateThe RecessionalA Matter of SentimentThe Secret Sin of Septimus BropeMinisters of GraceThe Remoulding of Groby Lington ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000038/bk_redd_000038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Paradise Postponed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 770min
    When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will and prove their father was insane. Younger brother Fred, a mild-mannered country doctor, takes a different approach, quietly digging in Simeon's past, only to uncover an entirely unexpected explanation for the legacy. An exquisitely drawn saga of ancient rivalries and class struggles, featuring a glorious cast of characters, Paradise Postponed is a delicious portrait of English country life by a master satirist. Read by Paul Shelley. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Shelley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005396/bk_bbcw_005396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mystery of the Octagon Room , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (1893 – 1935) was an Irish writer, economist and satirist. The Mystery of the Octagonal Room is a story about a man who is invited to a remote country house, recently inherited by friends of his. Many of the rooms in the house are rumoured to be haunted. But an unassuming octagonal room in the tower hides a particularly gruesome and terrifying secret. Nobody can stay there overnight - and those who have tried it were insane by morning. The narrator of the tale cannot resist the challenge and orders a bed, lamps and an oil stove to be installed in the Octagon Room, so that he can put the tale to the test. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000953/bk_redd_000953_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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