LEADER 01378nam 22002893u 450 001 9910160673603321 005 20230803040921.0 010 $a1-304-03665-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000508256 035 $a(EBL)1669162 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000508256 100 $a20151123d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aModest Proposal$b[electronic resource] 210 $cSheba Blake Publishing$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (34 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 330 $a 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 th 700 $aSwift$b Jonathan$0154535 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160673603321 996 $aModest Proposal$93416320 997 $aUNINA