Satire

A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

A pamphlet in which a starving country is offered a solution so reasonable that only the sincerity of its delivery makes it monstrous. Nobody in it is joking, which is exactly how you know it is satire. Do not take the recipe at face value.

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Reading time

About 14 minutes

Where to find it

The Evening Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1080. In the public domain in the United States.