Den 24-01-2012 14:23, David Gerard skrev:
By the way, is the Swift's work any good?
His writing style is 300 years old, and I don't know how readable it will be to a non-native speaker, but he remains a highly-renowned writer in English for good reason. His other most notable work was "Gulliver's Travels".
"A modest proposal" is quite funny, at least the idea in itself is; in a rather serious way. Wikipedia has a Gutenberg link.