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 by Jonathan Swift
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
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Jonathan Swift
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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

24 pages • first pub 1729 (editions)

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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 th...

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