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
Description de l’éditeur
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 Irish policy in general.
GENRE
Religion et spiritualité
SORTIE
2008
27 juillet
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
27
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Project Gutenberg
TAILLE
334,2
Ko