A Modest Proposal: for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Benef (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781502763686)

For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick. 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 Irish policy in general. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

Author: Jonathon Swift
ISBN-10: 1502763680
ISBN-13: 9781502763686
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2014
Pages: 26
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.05d