Jonathan Swift

"A Collection Of Tracts, Concerning The Present State Of Ireland" offers a detailed snapshot of Ireland's economic and political landscape during the 18th century. Authored by John Browne and Jonathan...

Originally published in 1738, this witty and sardonic book offers a satirical take on the conventions and excesses of polite society in 18th-century England. With a range of imagined conversations bet...

This classic political treatise by renowned author Jonathan Swift is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of democracy. Analyzing the power struggles between the aristocracy and the common...

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 k...

First published in 1729, Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" remains one of the most brilliant, provocative works of satire in the English language. Swift crafts a precise and unsettling essay that i...

Brought together here in this volume is a classic collection of satirical works from Jonathan Swift, perhaps one of the greatest satirist in the English language. While Swift is probably best known fo...

Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and Anglican cleric. He wrote A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument A...

First published anonymously in 1729, 'A Modest Proposal and Other Stories' is a Juvenalian satirical essay by Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and Anglic...