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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Alastair Reynolds Beyond the Aquila Rift: the best of Alastair Reynolds

Een ruimteschip raakt de weg kwijt in het titelverhaal van deze bundel met 18 korte verhalen spelend in diverse universa van de auteur.

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Engels | 779 pagina's | Gollancz, London | 2016

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