![]() ![]() The artwork used for the cover is 'Sick Child' by Gabriël Metsu. Production notes: This ebook of A Modest Proposal was published by Global Grey ebooks on the 19th January 2021. Note: the five most pertinent paragraphs were missing from this text when we received it, and it has been corrected (in red below) as of 3/9/05. This book has 6 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1729. This Renascence Editions text was converted to HTML from the University of Adelaide mirror of the ERIS Project plain text edition. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general. ![]() Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. Home Ebooks Articles Buy Collections Donate F.A.Q About Contact Search ☰Īvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.Ī Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. ![]()
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