A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick

Jonathan Swift

ISBN 10: 1517060389 / ISBN 13: 9781517060381

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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24 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.06 inches. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1517060389
• ISBN 13: 9781517060381
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay written anonymously in 1729 by the Irish writer and activist Jonathan Swift to protest the government's policies (and his countrymen's heartless attitudes) towards the poor. It remains, today, a classic of the form, and the model for thousands of "modest proposals" published in the centuries since.

About the Author

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric. He is regarded as the foremost prose satirist in the English language.