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
Description
Swift's savage satirical proposal to solve Irish poverty through infanticide reads like a logical economic argument, forcing readers to confront the brutality already embedded in indifference toward the poor. This slim pamphlet remains one of literature's most effective weapons: a mirror held up to society's own inhumanity.
About this book
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 is an ebook by Jonathan Swift (1667–1745). It dates from 1729. This edition runs to roughly 50 pages, about 60 minutes of reading at a typical pace.
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About the Author
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) has 4 books in the BigBookHub catalogue: The Journal to Stella, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2, Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World and A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor pe…. These titles date from between 1726 and 1729.
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