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 - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

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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 the form, and the model for thousands of "modest proposals" published in the centuries since.

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