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 mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward Ireland in general. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

Medie	Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet	17. maj 2016
ISBN13	9781533293947
Forlag	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Antal sider	26
Mål	152 × 229 × 1 mm · 49 g
Sprog	Engelsk