Book · 1729 · Nonfiction

A Modest Proposal

Name: A Modest Proposal
Author: Jonathan Swift

Dover · 59 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

No other satire cuts this cleanly. A reasonable gentleman proposes that the infants of the Irish poor be fattened and sold as food to landlords, and calculates the savings to the shilling.

Genre

Satire

Subject

Children Poverty Overpopulation

Time

1729Depicts Age of Enlightenment

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