A Modest Proposal: Jonathan Swift

`... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...`

Swift`s devastating short satire on how to solve a famine

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Swift`s works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver`s Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings.