A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick

Savage, brilliant, and darkly comic, Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal shocks readers with its outrageous solution to poverty-only to expose the cold logic of injustice. This razor-edged

satire remains one of literature's most unforgettable indictments of cruelty masquerading as reason.