Swift, Jonathan
A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it 'A Modest Proposal' (1729) or 'A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.' The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a serious tone, the humour in this essay is undeniable, and so is its mocking of the heartless attitudes towards poor people.
- Author(s)
- Swift, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Saga Egmont
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Svenska Ljud Classica
- Page amount
- 79 pages
- Category
- Novels
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9789176393413