A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
- Length
- 2 mornings, about 1,700 words a reading
About the book
A Modest Proposal is a short satirical essay by Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer and clergyman. It was first published in Dublin in 1729, at a time of deep poverty in Ireland. Its full title offers a plan “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.”
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