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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires - Community Reviews back

by Jonathan Swift
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Reader! Reader!
Reader! Reader! rated it 10 years ago
This small collection contains 5 of Swift's satirical pieces. "A Modest Proposal" is definitely the best of them. It is strong, the writing is deadpan, and it is also the easiest for a modern reader to understand. It is excellent. I do know that people read it and don't understand it is satire. It i...
~Mairéad's Reading List~
~Mairéad's Reading List~ rated it 11 years ago
***Read for University***
JulieM
JulieM rated it 12 years ago
Humorous - great satire! Although I admit that I read this one to increase my % to goal on 1001 books to read before you die...
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 15 years ago
Witty. Provoking. Macabre. And unbelievably mistaken by some of his contemporary fellowmen. "A Modest Proposal" is a masterpiece on how satire may be used for condemning human hypocrisy revealing the social issues unseen by the calculated blindness of many governors.The anthropophagy solution for wi...
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