Reading path

The Pamphlet

Short, dangerous, alive on the page. The texts that arrived not to entertain but to overturn, and that survived because the arguments were also literature. Swift's modest proposal to eat Irish babies, Wollstonecraft assembling the case for half the human race, Zola in Le Figaro accusing the French state, Woolf demanding a room and £500 a year, Orwell teaching a generation to hear the lie inside the sentence, King writing from a Birmingham cell. Five centuries of language in furious working order, by people who knew exactly what they were doing.

In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.

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The route

1. AreopagiticaJohn Milton, 1644
2. A Modest ProposalJonathan Swift, 1729
3. Discourse on InequalityJean-Jacques Rousseau, 1755
4. Common SenseThomas Paine, 1776
5. Rights of ManThomas Paine, 1791
6. A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft, 1792
7. The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx & Friedrich Engels, 1848
8. Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau, 1849
9. On LibertyJohn Stuart Mill, 1859
10. J'AccuseÉmile Zola, 1898
11. Of Our Spiritual StrivingsW.E.B. Du Bois, 1897
12. A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf, 1929
13. Politics and the English LanguageGeorge Orwell, 1946
14. Letter from Birmingham JailMartin Luther King Jr., 1963
15. Hombres necios que acusáis (Redondillas / "You Foolish Men")Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1689
16. The Essays of Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1840