A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift
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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.

In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

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GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
May 6
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
14
Pages
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Cricket House Books
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Cricket House Books, LLC
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