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Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 2 - Book 5, Part 2 Feb 23, 2021

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Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 2 - Book 5, Part 2

Title: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 2

Overview: He lived simply, loved his walks, and craved the company of fellow poetical wits as they craved his company in return. With his pal Dr. Sheridan, for one, Jonathan Swift delighted in the 18th century equivalent of a rap off – going back and forth in dueling verse repartee. This second volume is a cornucopia of biting, iconoclastic humor, and earnest criticism of injustice. Poems herein concerning Wood’s Halfpence are the companion to his famous Drapier’s Letters and trumpet his achievement in stirring up sufficient outcry to spare Ireland from damaging monetary debasement. He knew what real money was: “For in all the leases that ever we hold We must pay our rent in good silver and gold, And not in brass tokens of such a base mould.” And he didn’t think much of monetary debasement’s evil twin, fractional reserve banking, either: “We want our money on the nail The Banker’s ruin’d if he pays”. There’s a healthy smattering here of bums and urination references too – just so you know these are genuine Swift poems -- and all manner of other topics too. In Death and Daphne, written for a favorite grisette, we learn of Death’s sagging libido due to the skinniness of his human bride. And the last poem excoriating Sheridan for comparing base women to noble clouds is a heavenly coup de grâce for any challenger who would dare to top his politically incorrect and thunderous wit: Some critic may object, perhaps, That clouds are blamed for giving claps; But what, alas! are claps ethereal, Compared for mischief to venereal?

Published: 1910

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Poetry, Single Author

Episode: Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 2 - Book 5, Part 2

Part: 2 of 2

Length Part: 4:39:02

Book: 5

Length Book: 9:53:33

Episodes: 69 - 136 of 136

Predecessor: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 1

Narrator: Arthur Krolman

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, irreligion, morality, christianity, religion, literature, politics, biblical, uncensored, hypocrisy, poems, poetry, jonathanswift

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Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 2 - Book 5, Part 1 Feb 23, 2021

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Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 2 - Book 5, Part 1

Title: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 2

Published: 1910

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Poetry, Single Author

Episode: Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 2 - Book 5, Part 1

Part: 1 of 2

Length Part: 5:14:41

Book: 5

Length Book: 9:53:33

Episodes: 1 - 68 of 136

Predecessor: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 1

Narrator: Arthur Krolman

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, irreligion, morality, christianity, religion, literature, politics, biblical, uncensored, hypocrisy, poems, poetry, jonathanswift

Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. Arthur Krolman.

Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 1 - Book 4, Part 2 Feb 23, 2021

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Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 1 - Book 4, Part 2

Title: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 1

Overview: Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is such a thing as corrupt rich guys who pretend they're God's gift to the world? So did Swift. Think some of these types strut around as if calls of nature don't apply to them? So did Swift. In one hilarious poem, he even describes gold diggers fighting over the loaded gentleman's gaseous offerings! His poem On Poetry, A Rhapsody, censored for treasonous mocking of the royal family, is in its rare uncensored form here. As free as he himself is with his sharp tongue against the blackened rich and corrupt, he knows others might have to kiss up to eat. So he includes many verses of advice on how to go about lying for a living, for example, "Your interest lies to learn the knack Of whitening what before was black." Despite the decay and hypocrisy, he sees all around him he stays upbeat throughout -- even making fun out of his own tragic onset of deafness. You already know this giant of English literature for the great feast of prose he left us. Think of these delicious poems here as your sinful dessert.

Published: 1910

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Poetry, Single Author

Episode: Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 1 - Book 4, Part 2

Part: 2 of 2

Length Part: 4:38:55

Book: 4

Length Book: 9:21:31

Episodes: 62 - 121 of 121

Successor: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 2

Narrator: Arthur Krolman

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, irreligion, morality, christianity, religion, literature, politics, biblical, uncensored, hypocrisy, poems, poetry, jonathanswift

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Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 1 - Book 4, Part 1 Feb 23, 2021

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Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 1 - Book 4, Part 1

Title: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 1

Published: 1910

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Poetry, Single Author

Episode: Poems - Jonathan Swift - Volume 1 - Book 4, Part 1

Part: 1 of 2

Length Part: 4:42:43

Book: 4

Length Book: 9:21:31

Episodes: 1 -61 of 121

Successor: The Poems of Jonathan Swift - Volume 2

Narrator: Arthur Krolman

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, irreligion, morality, christianity, religion, literature, politics, biblical, uncensored, hypocrisy, poems, poetry, jonathanswift

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A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift - Book 3 Feb 23, 2021

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A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift - Book 3

Title: A Modest Proposal

Overview: A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, predominantly Irish Catholic (i.e., "Papists") as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

Published: 1729

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Satirical Essay

Episode: A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift - Book 3

Part: 1 of 1

Length Part: 24:56

Book: 3

Length Book: 24:56

Episodes: 1 of 1

Predecessor: Gulliver's Travels

Narrator: John Gonzalez

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, irreligion, morality, christianity, religion, literature, politics, biblical, jonathanswift

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Book 2, Part 2 Feb 23, 2021

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Book 2, Part 2

Title: Gulliver's Travels

Overview: Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirizing both human nature and the "travelers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gulliver's Travels is listed as "a satirical masterpiece".

Published: 1726

List: 100 Best Novels Of All Time, 100 Classic Book Collection

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Fantasy, Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction

Episode: Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Book 2, Part 2

Part: 2 of 2

Length Part: 5:03:06

Book: 2

Length Book: 11:10:32

Episodes: 20 - 39 of 39

Predecessor: Drapier's Letters

Successor: A Modest Proposal

Narrator: Lizzie Driver

Memorium: Kristin Hughes (1974 - 2021)

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, travelers, tales, literary, humanity, literature, jonathanswift

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Book 2, Part 1 Feb 23, 2021

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Book 2, Part 1

Title: Gulliver's Travels

Published: 1726

List: 100 Best Novels Of All Time, 100 Classic Book Collection

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Fantasy, Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction

Episode: Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Book 2, Part 1

Part: 1 of 2

Length Part: 6:20:23

Book: 2

Length Book: 11:10:32

Episodes: 0 - 19 of 39

Predecessor: Drapier's Letters

Successor: A Modest Proposal

Narrator: Lizzie Driver

Memorium: Kristin Hughes (1974 - 2021)

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, travelers, tales, literary, humanity, literature, jonathanswift

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A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift - Book 1 Feb 23, 2021

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A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift - Book 1

Title: A Tale of a Tub

Overview: A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his best. The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity. A satire on the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and English Dissenters, it was famously attacked for its profanity and irreligion, starting with William Wotton, who wrote that it made a game of "God and Religion, Truth and Moral Honesty, Learning and Industry" to show "at the bottom [the author's] contemptible Opinion of every Thing which is called Christianity." The work continued to be regarded as an attack on religion well into the nineteenth century. The Tale was enormously popular, presenting both a satire of religious excess and a parody of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, Biblical exegesis, and medicine through its comically excessive front matter and series of digressions throughout. The overarching parody is of enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. At the time it was written, politics and religion were still closely linked in England, and the religious and political aspects of the satire can often hardly be separated. "The work made Swift notorious, and was widely misunderstood, especially by Queen Anne herself who mistook its purpose for profanity." It "effectively disbarred its author from proper preferment" in the Church of England, but is considered one of Swift's best allegories, even by himself.

Published: 1704

Author: Jonathan Swift

Genre: Satire, Prose & Tragedy

Episode: A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift - Book 1

Part: 1 of 1

Length Part: 4:26:42

Book: 1

Length Book: 4:26:42

Episodes: 0 - 12 of 12

Successor: Drapier's Letters

Narrator: Edmund Bloxam

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: satire, parody, irreligion, morality, christianity, religion, literature, politics, biblical, jonathanswift

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Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 5, Part 2 Feb 21, 2021

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Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 5, Part 2

Title: Tales of the Jazz Age

Overview: Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to the subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine (New York), Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair. The stories included in the collection are: "The Jelly-Bean", "The Camel's Back", "May Day", "Porcelain and Pink", "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Tarquin of Cheapside", "O Russet Witch!", "The Lees of Happiness", "Mr. Icky", and "Jemina".

Published: 1922

Series: Short Story Collections #2

List: Great American Short Story Collection

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genre: Short Stories

Episode: Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 5, Part 2

Part: 2 of 2

Length Part: 4:04:28

Book: 5

Length Book: 8:45:01

Episodes: 7 - 13 of 13

Predecessor: Flappers and Philosophers

Successor: All the Sad Young Men

Narrator: Don W. Jenkins

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: adventure, hero, struggle, camaraderie, danger, morality, selflessness, moral integrity, character, love, forgiveness, authority, rules, freedom, romance, exploration, FScottFitzgerald

Hashtags: #freeaudiobooks #audiobook #mustread #readingbooks #audiblebooks #favoritebooks #free #booklist #audible #freeaudiobook #FScottFitzgerald #adventure #hero #romance #literary

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Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 5, Part 1 Feb 21, 2021

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Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 5, Part 1

Title: Tales of the Jazz Age

Published: 1922

Series: Short Story Collections #2

List: Great American Short Story Collection

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genre: Short Stories

Episode: Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book 5, Part 1

Part: 1 of 2

Length Part: 4:40:41

Book: 5

Length Book: 8:45:01

Episodes: 0 - 6 of 13

Predecessor: Flappers and Philosophers

Successor: All the Sad Young Men

Narrator: Don W. Jenkins

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: adventure, hero, struggle, camaraderie, danger, morality, selflessness, moral integrity, character, love, forgiveness, authority, rules, freedom, romance, exploration, FScottFitzgerald

Hashtags: #freeaudiobooks #audiobook #mustread #readingbooks #audiblebooks #favoritebooks #free #booklist #audible #freeaudiobook #FScottFitzgerald #adventure #hero #romance #literary

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