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A Modest Proposal (Colorful Classics) 1519110650 Book Cover

A Modest Proposal (Colorful Classics)

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Jonathan Swift's classic essay A Modest Proposal is one of the most iconic essays ever written and is a perfect example of hyperbole and satire. This Colorful Classics edition presents this classic in full with a beautifully designed cover that is a perfect edition to any bookshelf...

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Jonathan Swift's classic essay A Modest Proposal is one of the most iconic essays ever written and is a perfect example of hyperbole and satire. This Colorful Classics edition presents this classic in full with a beautifully designed colorful cover that is a perfect edition to...

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A Modest Proposal

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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

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A Modest Proposal

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Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is a satirical essay written to mock the callous and indignant attitude of Ireland's rich towards the poor. In the essay, Swift argues Ireland's economic problems could be lessened by selling poor Irish children as food to the wealthy. First...

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A Modest Proposal: The Original 1729 Edition 1947844466 Book Cover

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A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children O... 1298531691 Book Cover

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A Modest Proposal

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A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously...

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'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'

Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of...

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Jonathan Swift a Modest Proposal

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A Modest Proposal

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"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust."

Jonathan Swift's 1729 pamphlet is at once a...

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A Modest Proposal and Other Writings

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In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to provide their offspring as food to the rich. Skilfully applying a wealth of classical rhetorical techniques, Swift's satirical tour de force takes a...

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A Modest Proposal: By Jonathan Swift - Illustrated 1541064585 Book Cover

A Modest Proposal: By Jonathan Swift - Illustrated

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A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children ... 2382747110 Book Cover

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A Modest Proposal: A Modern Proposal 1493616439 Book Cover

A Modest Proposal: A Modern Proposal

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"A Modest Proposal", reprinted here, was written over 300 years ago by Jonathan Swift, outspoken voice of the 18th century, and author of "Gulliver's Travels." In his humorous essay, Swift wrote against the British elite's disdain for the starving Irish children, who were then...

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A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English 1484036719 Book Cover

A Modest Proposal In Plain and Simple English

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What's the solution to poverty in 18th-century Ireland? According to Jonathan Swift-eat the babies. No, really.

Swift's A Modest Proposal is one of the most biting and brilliantly absurd pieces of political satire ever written. It shocked readers in 1729...

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A Modest Proposal - Classics in Large Print 1530872774 Book Cover

A Modest Proposal - Classics in Large Print

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Una Humilde Propuesta/A Modest Proposal [Spanish] 8492683872 Book Cover

Una Humilde Propuesta/A Modest Proposal [Spanish]

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A Modest Proposal

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Read & Co. Great Essays presents this brand new edition of Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, "A Modest Proposal" (1729). Referring to the worsening state of poverty amongst families and children in Ireland at the time, Swift's proposal is to solve the problem by feeding the children...

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