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A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift • 1729
Jonathan Swift's famously ruthless satire exposes indifference by carrying cold economic logic to a horrifying extreme.
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25 min
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Read and listen to Jonathan Swift's complete satirical essay as one uninterrupted audio work.
A Modest Proposal is presented here with 1 complete audio section, preserving the structure of the original work rather than combining the book into one track.
Readers can move between the ebook source and the AI-narrated audio, making this public-domain edition easy to read, sample, and continue by chapter.
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- It is a recognized public-domain work with lasting literary and cultural value.
- Its compact single-story form works naturally for focused listening.
- The read-and-listen format makes it easy to revisit scenes, ideas, and language at your own pace.
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A Modest Proposal opens in the distinctive voice and setting that made Jonathan Swift's work endure.
The complete narration follows the cleaned Project Gutenberg text, without its catalog header, table of contents, or license footer.
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Is A Modest Proposal available as a complete audiobook here?
Yes. This page includes the complete cleaned narration in 1 audio section.
Where does the ebook text come from?
The source is the linked Project Gutenberg edition. Its catalog header, contents page, and license footer are excluded from the narration.
Can I listen chapter by chapter?
This work is a single continuous short piece, so it is correctly presented as one complete audio section.
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