Tag Archives: Jonathan Swift
Book 20: A Modest Proposal
I first read Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal in 7th grade with a teacher who went through it paragraph by paragraph with us, delighting in each bit of satire he could pull out and explain for us. I reread it … Continue reading
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Book 19: Gulliver’s Travels
Book 19 of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. I have read the book 4 times (1 in high school / 2 in college as an undergrad / 1 recently reread for … Continue reading
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Book 14: A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
This is the first of the books from the “1700s” section in the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I had not read it before, but I found it at Project Gutenberg. Jonathan Swift’s first major work was A … Continue reading
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