A Modest Proposal

One of the most famous, brilliantly biting pieces of satire ever written. Facing a devastating economic crisis and widespread poverty in 18th-century Ireland, Swift delivers a shockingly deadpan “solution” suggesting that the impoverished citizens sell their children as food to the wealthy nobility. It’s a wildly dark, witty, and unforgettable masterpiece that fiercely targets political greed, social hypocrisy, and cold bureaucratic indifference.