I have read numerous books that could be described as satirical. This week’s post is dedicated to 7 of them.
Satire definition: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly...
Candide by Voltaire (1759) — Candide is an eighteenth-century satirical classic that evaluates optimism; the prevailing philosophical ideology during The Enlightenment. Voltaire adroitly sought to dispel the belief that all is for the best when it is not...(more)