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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
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J.D. Vance Hillbilly elegy
a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Een jonge advocaat, opgeleid aan Yale, vertelt over het leven van arme Amerikanen in Kentucky en Ohio, met geweld en verslavingen, en hoe hij aan de armoede ontsnapte.
Non-fictie
Engels | 264 pagina's | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York | 2016
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