Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Jonathan Swift, across a wide range of subjects.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and Anglican cleric. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed “Swiftian”.
The book contains the following texts:
— Introduction by Edmund Gosse;
— Jonathan Swift by Charles Whibley;
— An Essay on Modern Education;
— An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen;
— Of the Education of Ladies;
— Some Thoughts on Freethinking;
— Hints on Good Manners;
— Resolutions for Old Age;
— Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation;
— A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind;
— Of Mean and Great Figures Made by Several Persons;
— A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue;
— A Treatise on good Manners;
— A Modest Proposal.
