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A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. This book discusses Swift's life and turbulent times, his political views and his powers as a writer of complex irony and intricate word play.
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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.
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ISBN: 9780140436426
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 September 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Edited by Carole Fabricant
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 317g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin on 30 November 1667, some months after his father's death. He was sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six and later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. Among Swift's best known works is his ironic masterpiece, 'A Modest Proposal' (1729), and his novel, Gulliver's Travels (1726). Swift died on 19 October 1745. 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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