Books by Jonathan Swift

Portrait of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift, the celebrated Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric, is best known for his sharp wit and incisive social commentary. His works, notably *Gulliver's Travels* and *A Modest Proposal*, expose the follies of politics, power, and human nature with unrivalled irony. Swift's mastery of prose and moral conviction secured his place as one of the foremost voices of the eighteenth century.

Readers continue to find his writing both entertaining and unsettling, as his humour masks a profound critique of society's flaws. Whether exploring the absurdities of empire or the contradictions of reason, Swift's imagination and intellect remain deeply relevant, offering a timeless perspective on ambition, hypocrisy, and the human condition.

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  • HardPress Publishing Memoirs of the Life of Scriblerus

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  • HardPress Publishing Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Lemuel Gulliver

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  • HardPress Publishing The Works of Jonathan Swift Tale of a Tub. Battle of the Books. Polite Conversation

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  • HardPress Publishing The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. ... With Notes Historical and Critical

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  • HardPress Publishing The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean of St. Patricks Dublin Including the Whole of His Posthumous Pieces Letters C

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  • HardPress Publishing The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift in Three Volumes

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  • HardPress Publishing The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. ... With Notes Historical and Critical

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  • HardPress Publishing The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D. With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author

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  • HardPress Publishing Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver

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  • HardPress Publishing Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts

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  • HardPress Publishing The Works of Jonathan Swift Memoirs of Jonathan Swift D. D

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  • HardPress Publishing The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean of St. Patricks Dublin

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  • Editorial Anagrama Viajes de Gulliver, Los

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  • Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. (EDHASA) Los viajes de Gulliver

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    Book SynopsisEsta obra nos habla indirectamente de la Inglaterra que le tocó vivir al autor, de las costumbres, la ideología, la moral y la ciencia de su tiempo, y por extensión de toda Europa. Sin embargo, si se ha convertido en un clásico es porque en realidad sus juicios son aplicables a todas las épocas, pues aluden a defectos que forman parte de la naturaleza humana, y pone de manifiesto hasta qué punto la nuestra es una civilización degradada en la que impera la violencia, la monstruosidad y el horror.

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  • Anaya Educación Los viajes de Gulliver

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    Book SynopsisSeguramente, la mayoría de los adultos han leído de niños las aventuras de Gulliver en el país de los enanos y en el país de los gigantes, y conservamos de esta novela el mejor de los recuerdos. Tradicionalmente considerada como una obra de lectura infantil y juvenil, sin embargo, " Los viajes de Gulliver " de Jonathan Swift va mucho más allá de este nivel y nos sitúa ante una visión crítica de la sociedad inglesa de mediados del siglo XVIII, con el objeto de hacernos reflexionar a jóvenes y a mayores sobre una época aparentemente de esplendor ?la Ilustración?, pero que en el fondo lo era de decadencia y estaba bien necesitada de reformas que trajeran mayor bienestar al hombre y le hicieran más feliz.

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  • Los viajes de Gulliver

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    Book SynopsisLemuel Gulliver se embarca en tres fantásticas aventuras que lo llevan a descubrir unos países extraordinarios.

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  • Nordica Libros Una Humilde Propuesta/A Modest Proposal

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  • Instrucciones a los sirvientes

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  • Algar libros S.L.U. Gullivers travels

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  • Cambridge University Press Gullivers Travels

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  • Cambridge University Press Journal to Stella Letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley 17101713 9 The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift Series Number 9

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    Book SynopsisThe Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift's letters to Esther Johnson, or 'Stella', and Rebecca Dingley, written between September 1710 and June 1713, offers an extraordinary commentary on Swift's experiences in London during the most politically active and exciting years of his career and evidence of his evolving relationship with the two women. This edition seeks for the first time both to situate the letters alongside Swift's other works and to place them within their original political, historical and cultural contexts. It brings together a combination of printed work and manuscript to present the most complete and accessible text possible, enhanced by the use of the latest digital image analysis techniques to reinstate previously indecipherable material. In addition to a new critical introduction and appendices, there is also a biographical appendix derived from recently available resources.Trade Review'Magisterial …' London Review of BooksTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Letters; Textual account; Appendices; Bibliography.

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  • Cambridge University Press Gullivers Travels

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    Book SynopsisGulliver''s Travels is one of the few works of English literature which is also a landmark in world literature. Jonathan Swift''s account of Lemuel Gulliver''s adventures in the fantastical societies of ''remote nations'' was an instant best-seller on publication in 1726 and has remained in the public imagination ever since, as both a satiric fantasy and an analysis of the human condition. This scholarly edition offers an authoritative text, based on the widest possible historical collation of the many editions published in Swift''s lifetime; a detailed introduction and textual apparatus; and appendices and illustrations presenting important ancillary material with new clarity. Extensive notes and commentary open out the many layers of meaning and allusion in the text, identify new sources and parallels and offer wide-ranging historical background information. An important addition to the Cambridge Swift Edition, this volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of eighteenthTrade Review'David Womersley's massive, magnificent edition of Gulliver's Travels is cause for celebration … No edition of Gulliver's Travels approaches this one in scope and authority.' David Oakleaf, The Review of English Studies'David Womersley's new edition of Gulliver's Travels is a scholarly feat - and feast … splendid … readers have never been better positioned to experience the manifold pleasures and surprises of this journey.' Notes and Queries'… [this] scholarly edition of Gulliver's Travels is a treasure.' Karen Swallow Prior, Books and Culture (booksandculture.com)'This weighty tome fulfils with aplomb the considerable demands required of a new standard edition of Swift's masterpiece, and will be essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth century.' Greg Lynall, Modern Language Review'This is a vast contribution to the Cambridge Swift Project … [It] will stand for many years as the premier edition of the work …' Jonathan Lamb, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900Table of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Chronologies; Introduction; Gulliver's Travels; Long notes; Appendices; Textual introduction; Emendations; Historical collation; Line-end hyphenation; MS readings from particular copies; Bibliography; Index.

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  • Cambridge University Press Journal to Stella

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  • Cambridge University Press Parodies Hoaxes Mock Treatises

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    Book SynopsisSwift''s parodies are among his most fascinating works, but perhaps require most explication for the modern reader. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift''s Bickerstaff papers, ''Polite Conversation'', ''Directions to Servants'' and other works on language and conduct. Highlights include a fresh investigation of the political and print contexts of the Bickerstaff papers, full commentaries on such smaller works as ''A Modest Defence of Punning'' and ''On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland'', identification and explanation of many additional sayings in ''Polite Conversation'', and a detailed contextualisation of ''Directions to Servants'' in contemporary domestic theory and practice. A substantial thematic Introduction is supplemented by an individual headnote and full annotation to each work. The Textual Introduction explores the publishing strategies adopted by Swift and his booksellers, and a separate Textual Account of each work presents and discusses Trade Review'A mighty contribution to Swift studies.' Times Literary Supplement'Valerie Rumbold as editor has done an assiduous and thorough job, well up to the high standards set by this series so far … this volume is, in its editorial construction and execution, a wonderful resource for scholars which will remain the standard edition for the foreseeable future.' Robert J. Mayhew, Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Chronology; Introduction; A Meditation upon a Broom-stick; A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind; Predictions for the Year 1708; The Accomplishment of the First of Mr Bickerstaff's Predictions; A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.; A Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard; Tatler no. 230; Harrison's Tatler no. 5; Harrison's Tatler no. 20; A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; A Modest Defence of Punning; Hints towards an Essay on Conversation; On Good-Manners and Good-Breeding; Hints on Good Manners; The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Ellison; Of the Education of Ladies; A History of Poetry; A Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue; On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland; Polite Conversation; Directions to Servants; General Textual Introduction and Textual Accounts of Individual Works; Associated Materials: I. April Fool's Joke; II. Specimens of Irish English; III. Laws for the Dean's Servants; IV. Duty of Servants at Inns; V. Notes for Polite Conversation; VI. Fragment of a Preface for Directions to Servants; Appendices: A. A Dialogue in the Castilian Language; B. The Dying Speech of Tom Ashe; C. To my lord High Admirall. The Humble petition of the Doctor; D. 'Squire Bickerstaff Detected; E. An Answer to Bickerstaff; F. The Publisher to the Reader; G. The Attribution to Swift of Further Tatlers and Spectators; H. The Attribution to Swift of A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet; I. The Last Farewell of Ebenezor Elliston; J. A Consultation of Four Physicians, upon a Lord that was Dying; K. A Certificate to a Discarded Servant; Bibliography; Index.

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  • Cambridge University Press Irish Political Writings after 1725

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  • Cambridge University Press English Political Writings 17111714

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  • Gullivers Travels

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  • Gullivers Travels

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  • Gullivers Travels Voyage to Lilliput

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  • Graphic Revolve Common Core Editions Gullivers

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  • Polite Conversation Hesperus Classics

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  • Core Knowledge Foundation Gulliver's Travels

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  • Los viajes de Gulliver / Gulliver's Travels

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  • Editorial Vicens Vives Gullivers travelscd life skills

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  • Editorial Maxtor Gullivers travels into the several remote nations of the world

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    Book Synopsis?My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me...?Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.The book became popular as soon as it was published. The book begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history before his voyages. He enjoys travelling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall.Gulliver's Travels has been the recipient of several designations: from Menippean satire to a children's story, from proto-Science Fiction to a forerunner of the modern novel.

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  • Los viajes de Gulliver / Gulliver's Travels

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Los viajes de Gulliver / Gulliver's Travels

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