A Modest Proposal: The Original 1729 Edition

Swift, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1947844466 / ISBN 13: 9781947844469

Editore: Suzeteo Enterprises, 2018

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Titolo: A Modest Proposal: The Original 1729 Edition

Casa editrice: Suzeteo Enterprises

Data di pubblicazione: 2018

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Brand New

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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.