A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

Name: A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
Rating: 4.083333333333333 (12 reviews)
Author: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9780486287591

by Jonathan Swift

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59 pages1996Courier CorporationISBN 9780486287591

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About this book

Treasury of five shorter works by the author of Gulliver's Travels offers ample evidence of the great satirist's inspired lampoonery. Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.

Publication Details

Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1996
Pages: 59
ISBN: 9780486287591
Language: en

About Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift