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

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

Paperback | Pages: 48 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 39250 Users | 1149 Reviews

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

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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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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.

FIRST THING IVE READ IN MONTHS AND IT FEELS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

Macabre but good example of how you can use standard arguments to convince people - no matter how appalling your opinion may be. Scary!



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.

Thank you! I would have never known about it without your review. It was a very enjoyable quick read.

This made me laugh so much. Its just so brilliantly funny. Swift adopts a very serious tone, and an authoritative voice, that almost sounds real. He delivers his proposal in such a hilariously cold way that embodies a dejected government official. I could imagine him writing this whilst struggling to keep a straight face as he mocks the English law makers. The rich looked down upon the poor and saw them as a deplorable sub species of human, which is rather ironic because without poverty there