A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2009
Summary
Wit and Wisdom: A Selection of Swift’s Prose
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, and the importance of puns are all explored in this collection of Swift’s most brilliant prose. From high politics to social gossip, from savage tirades to lighthearted social satire, this volume offers a comprehensive look at Swift’s diverse talents. In addition to his …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140436426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140436421 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Jonathan Swift, Carole Fabricant |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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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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