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A Modest Proposal (Dover Thrift)

By: Jonathan Swift
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN: 0486287599
ISBN-13: 9780486287591
Released: 24 Jun 1996
RRP: £1.25
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Fab - By: Piper Halliwell, 08 Mar 2007
In response to the review from 'a reader' below- have you never heard of a satire?? I read this in the first year of an english degree & have to say that I found it reallly thought provoking as it has a very dry witty theme throughout & it is meant to be taken lightly after alll!
a modest mistake? - By: Ms. H. Powell, 26 Jan 2007
The book A Modest Proposal, written in the first instance by Swift in pamphlet form, is a wonderful piece of social commentary. The reviewer "a reader" appears to have completely missed the point, however, in not recognising the desired effect of this pamplet on the citizens of London. Plagued by crime & poverty, London of Swift's time was a place run as an autocracy, with many politicians & other people with high & influential social standing of a mentality far removed from reality. Swift's intended readership was these people, of upper middle & higher status, & in offering them a "solution" to the problems involved with mass poverty & crime, was actuallly illuminating their own misconceptions & haughtiness concerning the issue. His "modest proposal" was designed to shock & cause a reconsideration of opinion, rather than to amuse in the same way a horror film does today. Indeed, it is in this fashion that Swift is one of the first employers of "shock tactics" in politics.
The book was an insight. - By: , 23 Mar 2001
This book opened my eyes to ideas that hadn't even occured to me before. Even the thought of some of the suggestions that were mentioned made me cringe with a gripping fear that someone could think of things like that. I thouroughly enjoyed the book as it takes a great deal of guts to wrote what he did & I only hope that his proposal is not prophetic! It amazes me that someone could create such ideas, but the way that he proposes them is clever & well thought out.