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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires - Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 2940000717479 (0000717479)
Publisher: Neeland Media
Edition language: English
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3.5 A Modest Proposal and other satirical works
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
3.0 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)
***Read for University***
JulieM
JulieM rated it
4.0 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)
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
4.0
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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