Jonathan Swift: 328 books

Il primo dei due brevi scritti che qui vengono raccolti è un articolo dal titolo “The art of political lying” scritto da Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) e pubblicato sul numero del 2 novembre 1710 del giornale “The Examiner”, che proprio in quel periodo lo scrittore angloirlandese era stato chiamato...

According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels,...

Instructions aux domestiques.... “Si une poignée de suie tombe dans la soupière, et qu’il ne soit pas commode de l’en retirer, mélangez-la bien, cela donnera à la soupe un haut goût français.” Dans les Instructions aux domestiques, Swift raille le ton des ouvrages de bonnes manières...

Jonathan Swift (* 30. November 1667 in Dublin, Königreich Irland; † 19. Oktober 1745 ebenda) war ein irischer Schriftsteller und Satiriker der frühen Aufklärung. Man kennt Swift gemeinhin als Satiriker. Die Bezeichnung trifft im Grunde nicht zu: Sie begrenzt zu stark. Swift war vor allem ein...

According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels,...

According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels,...

Swift (Jonatham), célèbre écrivain, surnommé le Rabelais d’Angleterre, né à Dublin, d’une bonne famille, en 1667, fut bientôt après sa naissance amené en Angleterre par sa nourrice, à l’insu de ses parens. Trois ans après l’enfant revint en Irlande, et fut confié à Gedouin, son...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature...

Jump into Jonathan Swift's take-no-prisoners parody of seventeenth-century Christianity. Equal parts uproarious humor and incisive satire, A Tale of a Tub dissects the foibles and shortcomings of three brothers, each of whom represents a different branch of the Christian religion. Swift, himself...

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...

Almost 300 years ago, Jonathan Swift published what is considered one of the greatest satire's of all time. A few pages in, you might start asking the obvious: why aren't you laughing? Probably because many of the words are not even used today. Let BookCaps help with this edition of Swift's classic...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature...

Jonathan Swift’s "Directions to servants" is an entertaining satire of relationships between servants and masters in the Eighteenth century. It is a late work in Swift’s life. Not the most well-known, less dark than earlier satires and pamphlets, "Directions to servants" is...

Gulliver's Travels or the long title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a novel written by Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and writer Jonathan Swift. This is a satire on human nature as well as...