A Modest Proposal
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Publisher Description
A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked 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.
GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
27 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hum Books
SIZE
641.9
KB
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