Essays

Zusatztext

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.

Autorenportrait

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

Weitere Details