A Modest Proposal (Unabridged)

A Modest Proposal (Unabridged)

Title: A Modest Proposal (Unabridged)
Author: Jonathan Swift
Release: 2024-11-12
Kind: audiobook
Genre: History
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A Modest Proposal (Unabridged) Jonathan Swift
The full title of Swift's pamphlet is A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burtden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick."The tract is an ironically conceived attempt to "find out a fair, cheap, and easy Method" for converting the starving children of Ireland into "sound and useful members of the Commonwealth." Across the country poor children, predominantly Catholics, are living in squalor because their families are too poor to keep them fed and clothed.

The author argues, by hard-edged economic reasoning as well as from a self-righteous moral stance, for a way to turn this problem into its own solution. His proposal, in effect, is to fatten up these undernourished children and feed them to Ireland's rich landowners.

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