The Basic Writings Of Jonathan Swift (Modern Library Classics)

Jonathan Swift

ISBN 10: 0375757953 / ISBN 13: 9780375757952

Editore: Modern Library, 2002

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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. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

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• Titolo: The Basic Writings Of Jonathan Swift (Modern Library Classics)
• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375757953
• ISBN 13: 9780375757952
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket
• Tipo di libro: Book

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Riassunto

Presents the complete text of "Gulliver's Travels," along with essays and a critical survey of the novel.

Informazioni sull?autore

Claude Rawson is the Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. His most recent book is God, Gulliver, and Geno-cide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492–1945. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ian Higgins is a senior lecturer in English at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He is the author of, most recently, Swift’s Politics: A Study in Disaffection.