A Modest Proposal
By: Jonathan Swift, John Gonzales (read by)
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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.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, and political pamphleteer, best known for his satirical work like `A Modest Proposal‘ (1729) and‘ Gulliver‘s Travels‘ (1726).
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Watermarked
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24 minutes
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SAGA Egmont
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9789176391891
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1/4/2017
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Historical fiction, Literary essays, Satirical fiction and parodies, Poverty and precarity, Social and political philosophy, Ireland, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799
Price DKK: 69,00
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