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The Jonathan Swift Library

The Jonathan Swift Library

Di: Jonathan Swift
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Welcome, curious listener, to The Jonathan Swift Library, a most serious repository of voyages, follies, and uncomfortable truths. Within this auditory cabinet you shall find entire books read aloud, as if rescued from the dust of some neglected Enlightenment shelf. Expect giants and tiny emperors, philosophers both wise and ridiculous, and the occasional reminder that mankind, for all its claims to reason, remains delightfully absurd. Pray sit upright, adjust your headphones with dignity, and prepare to be entertained, corrected, and perhaps gently mocked.Public domain
Episodi
  • A Modest Proposal

    A Modest Proposal
    Jul 22 2026
    In which a cool-headed projector, surveying the swarms of impoverished mothers and children that burden a suffering kingdom, proposes with shocking arithmetic that infants be turned into a profitable commodity, thereby easing poverty, enriching landlords, and delighting the tables of the wealthy. With feigned reasonableness and savage irony, he praises the supposed economic, social, and moral benefits of this monstrous scheme, exposing instead the cruelty, indifference, and hypocrisy of a society that treats its poorest people as expendable.
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    25 min
  • Gulliver's Travels Part 4 Chapter 12

    Gulliver's Travels Part 4 Chapter 12
    Jul 20 2026
    In which the author solemnly vindicates the truthfulness of his long and unusual travels, lamenting the rash falsities often told by less scrupulous voyagers, and extols the virtues of the rational Houyhnhnms while reflecting on the shortcomings of his own countrymen. He takes his final leave with a modest proposal for personal reformation and a gentle admonition to those afflicted by pride, thus concluding his curious and instructive narrative.
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    15 min
  • Gulliver's Travels Part 4 Chapter 11

    Gulliver's Travels Part 4 Chapter 11
    Jul 18 2026
    In which the author undertakes a perilous voyage to a remote land, where he suffers injury at the hands of natives and is subsequently rescued by a kindly Portuguese captain, whose civilities he reluctantly accepts. Upon his return to England, he finds himself alienated from his former life and kin, harbouring a profound preference for the noble company of horses over that of his own species.
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    17 min
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