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A Modest Proposal: A Juvenalian Satirical Essay
Contributor(s): Swift, Jonathan (Author)

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 ISBN: 1537787543     ISBN-13: 9781537787541
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $5.36  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness
Physical Information: 0.05" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.11 lbs) 26 pages
 
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A Modest Proposal by Dr. Jonathan Swift 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 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.
 
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