A Modest Proposal

"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 denunciation of the mistreatment of Ireland's poor and a daringly inventive comic rhapsody. Still shocking in its defiance of good taste and unrivalled in its evisceration of political hypocrisy, this is one of the greatest satires ever written.

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Jonathan Swift

Summary

Jonathan Swift’s 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment of Ireland’s poor and a daringly inventive comic rhapsody.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Swift
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.2024
• EAN: 9781912475803
• ISBN: 978-1-912475-80-3
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 250 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 666 g
• Series: ERIS gems
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Satire, Satirical fiction and parodies