Politics, reform, and the modern age

3 books

A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publickJonathan Swift · 1729This 1729 political satire by Jonathan Swift proposes a shocking solution for poor children in Ireland. Swift suggests making these infants beneficial to the public by selling them as food to alleviate the financial burden on the nation.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Imaginations and ReveriesGeorge William Russell · 1915A 1915 collection of essays and tales by George William Russell (A.E.), gathering twenty-five years of writings on Irish art, literature, nationalism, rural life, and spirituality, unified by the author's personal and varied sensibility rather than a single theme.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of DrawingJohn Ruskin · 1866A collected illustrated edition of John Ruskin's essays and lectures from 1866, covering work, traffic, war, political economy, the Pre-Raphaelites, Greek sculpture, fiction, and the principles of drawing.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية