Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Jonathan Swift, across a wide range of subjects.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and Anglican cleric. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".
The book contains the following texts:
- Introduction by Edmund Gosse;
- Jonathan Swift by Charles Whibley;
- An Essay on Modern Education;
- An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen;
- Of the Education of Ladies;
- Some Thoughts on Freethinking;
- Hints on Good Manners;
- Resolutions for Old Age;
- Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation;
- A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind;
- Of Mean and Great Figures Made by Several Persons;
- A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue;
- A Treatise on good Manners;
- A Modest Proposal.
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Título : Essays
EAN : 9783986776558
Editorial : Tacet Books
Edad, de : 18 años
Fecha de publicación
: 30/12/21
Formato : ePub
Tamaño del archivo : 515.9 kb
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