In the canon
A Modest Proposal
- Form
- Form Satire
- Year
- Year 1729
- Pages
- Pages 10
With the straightest of faces, an essayist proposes that Ireland's poor sell their babies as meat for the rich, and lets the arithmetic shame every polite scheme that ignores the starving.
A young healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food.
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