A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

Swift, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0879759194 / ISBN 13: 9780879759193

Editore: Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 1995

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8vo, 277 pp., Introduction by George R. Levine.

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• Titolo: A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
• Editore: Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0879759194
• ISBN 13: 9780879759193
• Rilegatura: softcover
• Edizione: 1st.
• Condizione: Fine copy
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) has been generally acknowledged as the greatest English satirist. In a prodigious stream of letters, pamphlets, tales, and essays, he assailed, with irony, erudition, and savage wit, several of the abuses and vices he saw around him, including political corruption, religious intolerance, hypocrisy, and the decline of learning. These selections from Swift's greatest writings include some of his best-known pieces against organized religion and the English oppression of Ireland: "A Tale of a Tub"; "A Tritical Essay"; "A Meditation upon a Broomstick"; "Thoughts on Various Subjects"; "An Argument against Abolishing Christianity in England"; "A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit"; Drapier letters nos. 1 and 4; "On Political Lying"; "A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club"; and "A Modest Proposal."

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) has been generally acknowledged as the greatest English satirist. In a prodigious stream of letters, pamphlets, tales, and essays, he assailed, with irony, erudition, and savage wit, several of the abuses and vices he saw around him, including political corruption, religious intolerance, hypocrisy, and the decline of learning. His most famous works are Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal.