LITTLE BLACK CLASSICS : A MODEST PROPOSAL PB – JONATHAN SWIFT

… a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food… Swift s devastating short satire on how to solve a famine Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Swift s works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver s Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings.