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A Modest Proposal: The Original 1729 Edition

A Modest Proposal: The Original 1729 Edition

Swift, Jonathan

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1947844466
ISBN13: 9781947844469
Publisher: Suzeteo Enterprises
Published: May 1 2018
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Jonathan Swift thought that England's anti-poverty proposals were so outrageously evil that nothing short of an absurd parody of them would suffice. His Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick is presented with a completely straight face. The irony is this: in the three centuries since, humanity has made it increasingly difficult to find evils so absurd that no one would actually attempt them, leaving modern-day Swifts with little material to work with anymore.

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