Jonathan Swift Gullivers reizen

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

Fictie

Nederlands | 340 pagina's | Reader's Digest, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2012

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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

Luisterboek (digitaal)

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.

Fictie

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

E-book

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 Richtlijnen voor bedienden

Beschrijvingen van de verhouding tussen ondergeschikten en hun meester en meesteressen.

Non-fictie

Nederlands | 109 pagina's | Uitgeverij Heureka, Weesp | 1985

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Jonathan Swift Major works

Engels | 722 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2003

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