A Modest Proposal

Name: A Modest Proposal
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141398181
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By Jonathan Swift

Series: Penguin Little Black Classics

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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a satirical pamphlet suggesting a shocking solution to the poverty and overpopulation of 18th-century Ireland. Swift proposes, with biting irony, that impoverished Irish families could sell their infants as food to the wealthy, thus addressing economic hardship and overpopulation. This darkly comedic proposal highlights the harsh British policies towards Ireland and criticises the indifference of the upper classes.
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A Modest Proposal

Features Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) devastating short satire on how to solve a famine.

Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland.

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Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary

A most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food ...

Suggesting that the Irish eat their children to avoid famine, Jonathan Swift's vicious satire on his times was published anonymously in the eighteenth century and has since become a touchstone of political writing, deadly serious in its humour.