A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)
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If you read this in high school (as many of us did), it may have shocked you--not bad for a tract written in 1729. It wouldn't be fair to those of you who haven't come across A Modest Proposal to reveal the particulars of the piece; suffice it to say that Saturday Night Live has nothing on Jonathan Swift! Swift's discussion of what Great Britain should do for his native impoverished Ireland is a model of political satire, absolutely consistent in tone and even now still sparkling in its clarity. The balance between, on the one hand, the utter seriousness of the matter in question and, on the other, the outrageousness of the remedy suggested is exquisite. A Modest Proposal is short and comes bound in this edition with several of Swift's other writings. This volume is an excellent introduction to the author of Gulliver's Travels (itself a masterwork) and to one of the world's premier satirical minds. What are you waiting for? --Michael Gerber
Book Description
Treasury of 5 shorter works by the author of Gulliver’s Travels offers ample evidence of the great satirist’s inspired lampoonery. Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions),Jonathan Swift,Dover Publications,0486287599,18th century,General,Humor,Ireland,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Political satire, English,Politics and government,Religious satire, English,16th to 18th century fiction,Literary Collections / General,Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries,Short stories
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