A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

30 pages first pub 1729 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays dark funny fast-paced
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Presented in the guise of an economic treatise, the essay proposes that the country ameliorate poverty in Ireland by butchering the children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords. Swift's proposal is a savage comm...

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