Author: Jonathan Swift
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift ...
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Select Works of Jonathan Swift ...
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192840783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
This authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career--prose, poetry, and letters--to give the essence of his work and thinking. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature. But in addition to this classic fictional satire, Swift wrote numerous works concerning politics, religion, and Ireland, some savage, others humorous, all suffused with his tremendous wit and inventiveness. This anthology includes satirical works such as A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, political pamphlets, pieces for the popular press, poems, and a generous selection from Swift's correspondence. Presented chronologically, the anthology offers a new and clearer awareness of the unity as well as the complexity of Swift's vision, and the powerful bonds between disparate pieces.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192840783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
This authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career--prose, poetry, and letters--to give the essence of his work and thinking. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature. But in addition to this classic fictional satire, Swift wrote numerous works concerning politics, religion, and Ireland, some savage, others humorous, all suffused with his tremendous wit and inventiveness. This anthology includes satirical works such as A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, political pamphlets, pieces for the popular press, poems, and a generous selection from Swift's correspondence. Presented chronologically, the anthology offers a new and clearer awareness of the unity as well as the complexity of Swift's vision, and the powerful bonds between disparate pieces.
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Author: Paddy Bullard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016266
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
An account of Swift's dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016266
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
An account of Swift's dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.
The Basic Writings of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
This edition of Jonathan Swift's basic works contains the authoritative texts of all his most important prose writings as well as many shorter pieces, poems, and letter extracts. Included are "Gulliver's Travels, Swift's devastating picture of human nature and human foibles; "A Tale of a Tub, his scathing attack on the intellectual culture and religious excesses of his time; "The Battel of the Books, his defense of the classical tradition; and the unforgettable "Modest Proposal, in which he proposes that the Irish, in order to avoid starvation, eat their children.
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
This edition of Jonathan Swift's basic works contains the authoritative texts of all his most important prose writings as well as many shorter pieces, poems, and letter extracts. Included are "Gulliver's Travels, Swift's devastating picture of human nature and human foibles; "A Tale of a Tub, his scathing attack on the intellectual culture and religious excesses of his time; "The Battel of the Books, his defense of the classical tradition; and the unforgettable "Modest Proposal, in which he proposes that the Irish, in order to avoid starvation, eat their children.
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
Author: John Stubbs
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (New York Times Book Review) author. One of Europe’s most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican minister—as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satires of the English language: Gulliver’s Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparalleled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists. John Stubbs’s biography captures the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakable attachment to an unmarried woman, his “Stella”; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all the answers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel—a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (New York Times Book Review) author. One of Europe’s most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican minister—as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satires of the English language: Gulliver’s Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparalleled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists. John Stubbs’s biography captures the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakable attachment to an unmarried woman, his “Stella”; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all the answers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel—a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Select Letters of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Essays on the portraits of Swift, by Sir Frederick Falkiner, and on Swift and Stella, by the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's. Bibliography of Swift's works, by W. Spencer Jackson, and a general index, comp. by Constance Jacob
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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