Satirical essays by Jonathan Swift lampooning 18th-century Irish and English politics, religion, and society, most famously proposing cannibalism to solve poverty.
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Satirical essays by Jonathan Swift lampooning 18th-century Irish and English politics, religion, and society, most famously proposing cannibalism to solve poverty.
Treasury of five shorter works by the author of Gulliver's Travels offers ample evidence of the great satirist's inspired lampoonery. Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England
will contain mild spoilers
No romantic or sexual content present
Satirical proposal of cannibalism without graphic violence
No profanity or strong language present