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A Modest Proposal
Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
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See moreFeatures Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) devastating short satire on how to solve a famine.
Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland.
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Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary
A most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food ...
Suggesting that the Irish eat their children to avoid famine, Jonathan Swift's vicious satire on his times was published anonymously in the eighteenth century and has since become a touchstone of political writing, deadly serious in its humour.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780141398181
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 February 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 6.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 160.0mm
Weight: 55g
Pages: 64
About the Author
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Swift's works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings.
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