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A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
Author: Jonathan Swift
Series: Default Blank
Narrator: Norman Dietz
Unabridged: 1 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 03/07/2008
Category: Fiction - Classics
Synopsis
In "A Modest Proposal," first published in 1729, Jonathan Swift heaps scorn on then-current political theory and reveals the appalling suffering taking place in Ireland - not through direct reporting, but through mock suggestions on what to do with the poor; they should sell their children for food. "The chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it," wrote Jonathan Swift in a letter to his friend Alexander Pope. Other vexing works collected here are "Directions to Servants," "The Art of Political Lying," "A Digression Concerning the Critics," and "Sweetness and Light."