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A Modest Proposal eBook

An Essay

by Jonathan Swift
language: english
Publisher: Diamond Book Publishing, November of 2019 ‧
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A 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. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

A Modest Proposal

An Essay

by Jonathan Swift

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ISBN: 9788835339793
Publisher: Diamond Book Publishing
Release Date: November of 2019
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > History > General History
EAN: 9788835339793

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Swift

Escritor irlandês. Nasceu em 1667 e faleceu em 1745. Estudou na Universidade de Dublin, doutorando-se em Teologia em 1694. Sempre observando as grandes correntes políticas da época, publicou o seu primeiro panfleto de intervenção em 1701. Sentindo-se cada vez mais atraído pela política, tornou-se um conselheiro escutado por todos e ocupou-se activamente de política externa. Em 1713, foi nomeado Deão da Catedral de S. Patrício, em Dublin. A sua obra é vastíssima, entre textos de intervenção, sátiras, ficção e poemas, destacando-se A Tale of the Tub (1704), The Public Spirit of the Whigs (1714), Drapier's Letters (1724-1725) e Gulliver's Travels (As Viagens de Gulliver,1726).

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