A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical WorksThe originality, concentrated power and "fierce indignation" of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift (16671745) a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English language. Gulliver's Travels is, of course, his world renowned masterpiece in the genre; however, Swift wrote other, shorter works that also offer excellent evidence of his inspired lampoonery. Perhaps the most famous of these is "A Modest Proposal," in which he straight

we sample the whole comic spectrum of the Elizabethan world

Living out their addictively decadent lives

Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

revere them as a new form of life or dismiss them as mere clever appliances

so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island

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Every page of this book brings history alive

this paperback reissue celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the second title in the series

satires and advice on life from a pharaoh to his son

dive into the companion fact book from DK Books

Then they add the toppings and cheese

key points at the end of each chapter