A MODEST PROPOSAL AND OTHER WRITINGS

The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduct ion and notes by Carol Fabricant. To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical 'solution' suggest ed by Jonathan Swift in his essay 'A Modest Proposal' (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armoury and corrosiv e wit, finding his targets - the British ruling class and avaricious landlords, and the brutalized Irish, complicit in their own opp ression ...[Read more]