A Modest Proposal
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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 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
2017
May 26
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13
Pages
PUBLISHER
Fix Pub
SELLER
KONSTANTIN FAMARSKII
SIZE
649.2
KB
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