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A Modest Proposal

Written by: Jonathan Swift
Narrated by: David Stifel
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Wickedly narrated by David Stifel, and written in 1729, this satiric essay on how to solve Ireland's chronic poverty is perhaps more shocking today than when it was written. In the 1960s, when Peter O'Toole did a public reading of this piece in Dublin, he very nearly started a riot. Newspapers the following day lambasted O'Toole's "shocking bad taste."

Whether shocking satire, or Monty-Pythonesque surrealism, this essay has continually managed to offend people for well over 3 centuries. Enjoy! (and Thank You!)

Public Domain (P)2014 David Stifel
Classics Literature & Fiction
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Un récit qui mérite d’être mieux connu

Une excellente performance d’un récit écrit en 1729 qui mérite d’être mieux connu surtout car lea enjeux de pouvoir à la base du récit continuent à se manifester quoique les contextes diffèrent du contexte original.

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