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"A Modest Proposal" is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.

Gulliver's Travels is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature. The book became popular as soon as it was published in 1726 and it has never been out of print.

A satirical, fanciful, novel which can be read simply as adventure or studied for social commentary and criticism. Yahoos, Lilliputions, and others populate distant lands whose customs contrast with ours >>

Lemuel Gulliver has bad luck at sea. A series of shipwrecks lands him in some unimaginable places. First, there's the land of the little people. Next there's the fantastic flying island and the land of >>

«Secondo il re, chiunque fosse riuscito a far crescere due spighe di grano o due fili d'erba dove ne cresceva uno solo, avrebbe reso un servizio al suo paese e all'umanità, tanto più grande dell'intera >>

A Kiswahili translation of Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift is brilliant in this satire of human nature. Lemuel Gulliver is a surgeon turned ship's captain whose four voyages to fantastical lands will enchant the reader. His first voyage to the land >>

Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist. He wrote for the Whigs and then for the Tories. His best known works are Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub. The Battle >>

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist. He wrote for the Whigs and then for the Tories. His best-known works are Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub. The Journal >>

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by >>