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A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

2020-01-0113 pages

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A Modest Proposal' is a 1729 Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless…

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