Reviews - 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

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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

Jonathan Swift

3.92 AVERAGE

is06's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

wanderlustlover's review against another edition

4.0

Spring 2019, DC/AP IV, audio & print:

A short, short read, but adding it in for the same reason I still list chapbooks, because they are too. This gorgeous, yet long, treatise on the treatment of the Irish was part of our Metaphysical/Enlightenment two week sampler. I hadn't read it since my early twenties in college, but I deeply loved getting to listen to/read it again. To hear the utter seriousness it's delivered with, while the twist of satire makes you hang on, horrified and intrigued like you are watching a crashing train.

illumina3's review against another edition

4.0

Biting satire, and genuinely (horrifyingly) humorous, I read this after watching Channel 4's 'The British Miracle Meat' which was based on Swift's essay.

paulabookworm's review against another edition

3.75

dark reflective sad fast-paced

charlietuna92's review against another edition

5.0

Absolutely brilliant. Not only is this completely my sense of humor, but the ending was just so unexpected! I think I have read this about 10 times now. :)