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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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

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

"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."

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... Read Full Overview

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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview