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Title	:	A Modest Proposal
Author	:	Jonathan Swift
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 48 pages
Published	:	July 4th 2008 by Book Jungle (first published 1729)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Humor. Writing. Essays

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

Paperback | Pages: 48 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 39250 Users | 1149 Reviews

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Last night my daughter asked me to watch what passes for comedy to pre-teens on Nickelodeon; a show low on laughs but high on laugh track. It's Halloween week and of course the thematic drum of cheap scares and slutty costumes (those of you dads that have 11 year old girls know what it is like to take a knee at the end of the show to have a side-bar chat about this topic alone) plays large when midway through the episode a six year old girl dressed like a failing barrister circa 1735 comes firing on stage screaming at her parents because they got her a Jonathan Swift costume instead of the requested Taylor Swift. This is where I wanted to pause live TV to tell my daughter about the original Swift, about A Modest Proposal - how our current American culture screams for someone like him to write about our never-ending race problem, our soul sucking capitalism-at-any-cost, our failed PAC-fueled political system. But my daughter is 11, I am 45, it's late on Saturday night and I don't have it in me. I watch the Jonathan Swift girl rant and rave and I drool thinking about delicious Irish babies in a white wine sauce.

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Original Title:	A Modest Proposal
ISBN:	1605977276 (ISBN13: 9781605977270)
Edition Language:	English

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One book leads to another....After listening to the audiobook "Food: A Love Story", by Jim Gaffigan...a hilarious walking companion...I quoted a Bizzarre Line from Jim..."Maybe All Americans should just eat starving people from other nations"....my mind went elsewhere with that line ( the complete opposite with Jim... but laughed anyway)....So....getting a little more serious --During the comments *Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)*, asked me if I had read/listened to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest

Book Review A Modest Proposal is a satirical work of fiction by Jonathan Swift, written nearly 300 years ago. It is an Irish piece, originally published anonymously, but served as a way to shove stupidity in the face of the English government and wealthy. Essentially, in order to solve the problem of poverty, people should eat their children. But it was written in a very serious manner, as though it were meant to be real suggestions. Ahead of its time, it propelled Swift to the forefront of



Even some 300 years after the publication of this story, it still rings true in today's world, and is very much relevant, which makes this short work of satire a true success. It might only have been meant as a work of satire, but the fact that the solution he offers is practical - if not ethical - is thought-provoking and he addresses some of the ills - ills that exist even in the 21st century - that brought about the need for such a solution.

Everyone seems to love this but not me. It's not my kind of humor at all.

This is obviously an incredible satire, which hopes to give some satisfaction to the rich. I recently reread it after reading The Sorrows of Young Mike. In John Zelazny's parody, the main character parodies Jonathan Swift's modest proposal. It is a parody within a parody and the modern twist is displayed well.

This is obviously an incredible satire, which hopes to give some satisfaction to the rich. I recently reread it after reading The Sorrows of Young Mike. In John Zelazny's parody, the main character parodies Jonathan Swift's modest proposal. It is a parody within a parody and the modern twist is displayed well.