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    A modest proposal

    By Jonathan Swift

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    Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal (A Modest Proposal) is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729 The paper proposes the problem of tenant farmers in Ireland who can not feed their children because the owners are adamant about the lease. After discussing the problem, suggests a new solution: parents should sell their children to rich landlords to be eaten.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan Swift
    Release dateJan 16, 2017
    ISBN9788822890580
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    Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. Although he spent most of his childhood in Ireland, he considered himself English, and, aged twenty-one, moved to England, where he found employment as secretary to the diplomat Sir William Temple. On Temple's death in 1699, Swift returned to Dublin to pursue a career in the Church. By this time he was also publishing in a variety of genres, and between 1704 and 1729 he produced a string of brilliant satires, of which Gulliver's Travels is the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; he was buried there when he died in 1745.

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