Modest Proposal [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Swift Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Sheba Blake Publishing, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (34 p.)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Modest Proposal
• ISBN: 1-304-03665-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910160673603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II