Swift's black satire in which the Proposer, after a protracted prologue foreshadowing a new measure for the nation to adopt with respect to its youngest children, finally announces it - at one year old they would make an excellent stew, ragout, or fricassee, and child-bearing mothers could engage in robust competition to see who could bring the fattest baby to market.
Editions · 4
Paperback
1969 · C. E. Merrill Pub. Co.
130 pp · EN
9780675094412
Paperback
2005 · BukAmerica Inc.
16 pp · EN
9780976425410
Audiobook
2005 · www.bnpublishing.com
100 pp · EN
9789561003644
Paperback
2006 · ICON Group International, Inc.
26 pp · EN
9780497257989
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