by Jonathan Swift · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781984990136
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«A Modest Proposal» is Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in paperback (24 pages, in English).
In this satirical essay, Jonathan Swift proposes with feigned seriousness an extreme solution to Irish poverty: raising the children of poor families to sell them as food to the rich. Beneath the grotesque reasoning lies a fierce critique of the indifference of the wealthy classes and of British policy towards Ireland.
The work was originally published in 1729; this edition dates from 2018.
It is of interest to readers of satire and classic essays and to students of English literature.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
