A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

By
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
1729 • 26 pages

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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Politics

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A Modest Proposal
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Read For School

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The Diary of a Young Girl

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