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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise ...Show more
Dirty Limericks by ANONYMOUS
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Category: Gift | Series: Quirky Classics
Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in print for public consumption, although many had been pr ...Show more
The Crocodile (Alma Quirky Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics
The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition - in a shopping arcade - of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German's concern for his croco ...Show more
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat "for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows", where they get married. Long considered one of the n ...Show more
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