A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
64 pages· 2015· ISBN 9780141398181
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'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'
Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).
Swift's works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings.
Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).
Swift's works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings.
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