A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift with Charles Allen Beaumont

130 pages first pub 1729 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays dark funny fast-paced
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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 ...

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