A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

Publisher Description

A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay. 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 Irish policy in general.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1984
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
13.6
KB

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