Classics & Literature
A Modest Proposal
Swift’s satirical essay pretends to offer an economic solution to Irish poverty in order to expose cruelty, indifference, and exploitative political thinking
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Books by Jonathan Swift
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Fantasy & Children's
A modest proposal
Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal begins in the voice of a calm, reasonable economic reformer discussing poverty in eighteenth-century Ireland. The narrator observes starving families and proposes a solution with horrifying precision: poor Irish families should sell their infants as food to
Classics & Literature
A Tale of a Tub
Swift’s satirical prose attacks religious and intellectual excesses through an elaborate allegory involving competing traditions and the absurdity of pedantry
Science Fiction & Speculative
Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world
Gulliver’s Travels follows Lemuel Gulliver through four voyages that carry him into societies increasingly strange to European eyes. In Lilliput, tiny people reveal the absurdity of politics, pride, and factional disputes
Art & Aesthetics
The Battle of the Books
Swift’s comic allegory turns a literary quarrel into a mock battle between ancient and modern authors, satirizing scholarship, vanity, criticism, and intellectual rivalry
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