Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...

Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published...

Engels | 11 uur 13 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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Jonathan Swift De reizen van Gulliver

Fictief reisverslag, waarin via de bezochte wonderlijke landen en volkeren het sociale en politieke leven ten tijde van Swift gehekeld wordt.

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Nederlands | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Atheneaeum - Polak & van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2009

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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

With an essay by George Orwell. 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for...

Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

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When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published...

Engels | ePub3, 0,2 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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