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A Modest Proposal : The Original 1729 Edition
Overview
Jonathan Swift thought that England's anti-poverty proposals were so outrageously evil that nothing short of an absurd parody of them would suffice. His "Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick" is presented with a completely straight face. The irony is this: in the three centuries since, humanity has made it increasingly difficult to find evils so absurd that no one would actually attempt them, leaving modern-day Swifts with little material to work with anymore.
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- ISBN-13: 9781947844469
- ISBN-10: 1947844466
- Publisher: Suzeteo Enterprises
- Publish Date: May 2018
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
- Page Count: 36
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