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![]() Best known as the author of A Modest Proposal (1729), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Tale Of A Tub (1704), Swift is widely acknowledged as the greatest prose satirist in the history of English literature. The artwork used for the cover is 'Sick Child' by Gabriël Metsu. It was this later stage when he would write most of his greatest works. Production notes: This ebook of A Modest Proposal was published by Global Grey ebooks on the 19th January 2021. This book has 6 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1729. ![]() ![]() This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. In English writing, the phrase a modest proposal is now conventionally an. ![]() Home Ebooks Articles Buy Collections Donate F.A.Q About Contact Search ☰Īvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.Ī Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Read A Modest Proposal (Classic Annotated Edition) by Jonathan Swift. ![]()
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