From the author responsible for the satirical work of genius, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub is an allegorical work that follows three brothers after the event of their father's death. When their father, who meant to be God, dies, the three brothers, Peter, Martin and Jack, inherit his will and each receive a decorative coat. Their father also leaves them instruction not to alter these coats in any way because doing so would be...

Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of Stella. It is, known that Stella is the name Swift gave to Esther Johnson. They met when she was only eight years old and knew each other for the entirety of the rest of their lives. Swift was first a mentor to young Esther. He taught her to read and write then introduced...

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The originality, concentrated power and "fierce indignation" of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English language.
Gulliver's Travels is, of course, his world-renowned masterpiece in the genre; however, Swift wrote other, shorter works that also offer excellent evidence of his inspired lampoonery. Perhaps the most famous of these is "A Modest Proposal," in...

Préparez-vous à vous envoler vers des terres étranges et fantastiques avec "Les Voyages de Gulliver" de Jonathan Swift. Ce livre intemporel vous transporte dans un monde rempli d'aventures incroyables et de rencontres surprenantes. Suivez les péripéties de Lemuel Gulliver, un médecin et marin intrépide, alors qu'il voyage à travers des contrées lointaines et exotiques. Découvrez Lilliput, o il se retrouve géant parmi les minuscules habitants....

"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift is a satirical masterpiece that employs biting wit and irony to address the pressing issue of poverty and overpopulation in 18th-century Ireland. Swift's proposal, presented in a straightforward and logical manner, suggests a shocking and absurd solution to the problem: the consumption of infants. As readers delve into this essay, they quickly realize that Swift's proposal is not to be taken seriously but is...

This vintage book contains Jonathan Swift's 1704 satire, "A Tale of a Tub". The first major work that he wrote, it is a prose parody about two brothers who are each representative of the chief aspects of western Christianity. It mainly deals with the ideas of religious enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. Published at a time when religion was an intrinsic aspect of politics, the work was widely condemned, with Queen Anne going as far as to call it "profane"....

Jonathan Swift (* 30. November 1667 in Dublin, Königreich Irland; † 19. Oktober 1745 ebenda) war ein irischer Schriftsteller und Satiriker der frühen Aufklärung. Von den frühen schriftstellerischen Versuchen Swifts ist wenig erhalten. Erst nach seiner Rückkehr nach Irland finden sich Schriften, die ihn als den bis heute bekannten Satiriker kennzeichnen. Sein Roman The travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver (dt....

Entre las reflexiones sociales de Jonathan Swift, que pueden incluso descubrirse insertadas en sus escritos de ficción, Una humilde propuesta destaca por ser una muy indignada defensa de los irlandeses católicos menesterosos a quienes tanto lastimaron los ingleses y las clases altas aliadas de su pueblo aliadas con los ingleses. En La batalla de los libros existen dos formas de ver el mundo: la tradición de las humanidades frente a una racionalidad...

Gulliver - personagem de fábula que salta da imaginação e da pena do seu inventor Jonathan Swift - conta-nos minuciosamente as espantosas aventuras que lhe vão acontecendo quando, através de um mundo como que mitológico, ele vai encontrando e conhecendo os habitantes e a maneira de viver dos países-miniatura de Lilipute e Blefuscu, do domínio dos Brobdingrag ou dos gigantes, da ilha suspensa e giratória de Lapúcia, da Academia dos Balnibarbos,...