by Jonathan Swift · Penguin Books · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780141398181
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«A Modest Proposal» is Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, published by Penguin Books in paperback (64 pages, in English).
In this brief essay, Jonathan Swift writes with calculated coldness to present a scandalous solution, framed as a rational remedy against the famine ravaging Ireland. The contrast between that reasonable tone and the atrocious nature of the proposal turns the text into a fierce satire against social indifference and the abuse of the poor.
Part of the Penguin Little Black Classics collection (number 8); the original text dates from 1729.
A short work for those interested in satire as a tool for social denunciation and in classics of the literature of ideas.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
