Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Modest Proposal Author: Jonathan Swift Narrator: John Gonzalez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.54 of Total 78 Ratings of Narrator: 3.74 of Total 19 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of starving children and poverty in one blow. When the "Proposal" was published in 1729, Swift was quickly attacked, and even accused of barbarity - the exact state the "Proposal" was written to expose. (Summary by Hugh)