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A Modest Proposal is an 18th‑century satirical essay by Jonathan Swift that critiques the exploitation of Ireland’s children amid economic hardship. Swift’s hyperbolic suggestion of feeding babies to the wealthy serves as a biting indictment of British colonial policy and class apathy. The work is a masterful use of irony to expose the cruelty of political indifference towards Ireland’s impoverished.
First publish date: 1969
Genre: Political Fiction/Political Satire
Authors: Jonathan Swift
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