Satire Books

L'Île Des Pingouins

Anatole France

The 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, ..

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke th..

Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream

John Kendrick Bangs

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs. It was first published in 1907 by Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York, with illustrations by Albert Levering. It is a pol..

L'Île Des Pingouins

Anatole France

L'Île Des Pingouins is a French origin of Penguin Island , a satire on French civilization written by Anatole France, who was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic ..

La Espuma

Armando Palacio Valdés

La Espuma is a Spanish satire novel written by Armando Palacio Valdés,  a Spanish novelist and critic...

An Unsocial Socialist

George Bernard Shaw

An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitat..

A Romance of the Republic

Lydia Maria Child

A Romance of the Republic is a fiction novel based on slavery and racism written by Lydia Maria Francis Child, was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activi..

Atalantis Major

Daniel Defoe

Atalantis Major is a thinly veiled allegory describing the November 1710 election of the representative Scottish peers. The circumstances which surrounded this election were produced by the outcome of..