01378nam 22002893u 450 991016067360332120230803040921.01-304-03665-0(CKB)3710000000508256(EBL)1669162(EXLCZ)99371000000050825620151123d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Modest Proposal[electronic resource]Sheba Blake Publishing20131 online resource (34 p.)Description based upon print version of record. In 1729 Jonathan Swift anonymously published ""A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public"", or as it's more succinctly called, ""A Modest Proposal."" The essay opens with a sympathetic and concerned citizen's persuasive introduction to the issue of the Irish poor. Soon however the speaker divulges his morbid solution: the Irish should raise their children as feed stock for the the wealthy throughout the kingdom. This solution, he continues unflinchingly, would resolve thSwift Jonathan154535AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910160673603321Modest Proposal3416320UNINA