- A Tale of a Tub / The Battle of the Books (Illustrated)

by Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (Illustrator)

Overview

This new edition in three volumes contents selected major works of Jonathan Swift. ".

About the Series: "Swift's Notable Works".
VOLUME 1:
- A Tale of a Tub / The Battle of the Books (Illustrated).
- Illustrations from 1710 and 1811ed. by William Wotton.
VOLUME 2:
- Gulliver's travels (Illustrated and Annotated).
- With twelve illustrations in color by Arthur Rackham
- Annotated with biographical note from "A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature" by John W. Cousin, 1910.
VOLUME 3:
- A Modest Proposal / Drapier's Letters (Annotated)
- Annotation: Swift by Leslie Stephen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798369208014
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	03/20/2023
Series:	Swift's Notable Works , #1
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".