A Modest Proposal: The Original 1729 Edition

Jonathan Swift thought that England's anti-poverty proposals were so outrageously evil that nothing short of an absurd parody of them would suffice. His "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" is presented with a completely straight face. The irony is this: in the three centuries since, humanity has made it increasingly difficult to find evils so absurd that no one would actually attempt them, leaving modern-day Swifts with little material to work with anymore.

Author: Jonathan Swift
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Suzeteo Enterprises
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781947844469