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A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

Swift, Jonathan

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Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1539396770
ISBN13: 9781539396772
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 6 2016
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. In English writing, the phrase a modest proposal is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

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