A Modest Proposal - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 1609422244 ISBN 13: 9781609422240

Publisher: International Alliance Pro-Publishing, LLC, 2012

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“A Modest Proposal” is the best sample of the author's Juvenalian satirical essays for preventing the children of poor people from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public.

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Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) was a famous Anglo-Irish novelist of Gulliver's Travels. He was also a prolific writer, notable for his satires such as, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub, and The Battle of the Books.

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Swift's works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings.

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