A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift -illustrated: -illustrated - A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1979091439 ISBN 13: 9781979091435

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

A Modest Proposal

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1979091439
• ISBN 13: 9781979091435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 24