Una modesta proposta e altre satire - Jonathan Swift, Franco Marucci, Bruno Armellin, Salvatore Rosati • BookLikes (ISBN:8817121169)

Una modesta proposta e altre satire

by: Franco Marucci (author) Bruno Armellin (author) Salvatore Rosati (author) Jonathan Swift (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9788817121163 (8817121169)

Publish date: 1988

Publisher: Rizzoli

Pages no: 157

Edition language: Italian

Category:

Classics, Humor, Writing, Essays, Academic, School, Literature, European Literature, Cultural, Irish Literature, Politics, Philosophy, Ireland, Short Stories

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Reader! Reader! rated it

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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...

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~Mairéad's Reading List~ rated it

12 years ago

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***Read for University***

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JulieM rated it

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Humorous - great satire! Although I admit that I read this one to increase my % to goal on 1001 books to read before you die...

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The Library of Babel rated it

15 years ago

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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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