A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
$21.75
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2009
Summary
A new selection of Swift’s witty, acerbic, and polemical prose.
The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of The Beggar’s Opera; the importance of puns … This selection gathers together some of Swift’s most brilliant prose, from high politics to social gossip, from savage tirades to lighthearted social satire. In addition to his classic essays, the collection includes several of Swift’s letters to Alexander Pope and other great thinkers of the age.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140436426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140436421 |
| Author: | Jonathan Swift, Carole Fabricant |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Carole Fabricant is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Swift’s Landscape and has published widely on a number of eighteenth-century writers, including Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke and Bishop Berkeley, as well as on topics such as landscape gardening, travel, tourism and questions of colonialism and race in the eighteenth-centruy, especially as they relate to British-Irish relations during the period.
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