In 1729, Jonathan Swift proposed the most satirical answer to poverty ever written: we sell poor children as food to rich people! The essay is as hilarious toda

Few writers could write wit and satire quite like Jonathan Swift. His humor has been appreciated and imitated for hundreds of years. So why aren't you laughing?

Almost 300 years ago, Jonathan Swift published what is considered one of the greatest satire's of all time. A few pages in, you might start asking the obvious:

This edition of Jonathan Swift's basic works contains the authoritative texts of all his most important prose writings as well as many shorter pieces, poems, an

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imaginat