Essays

Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Jonathan Swift, across a wide range of subjects.



Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and Anglican cleric. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".



The book contains the following texts:

- Introduction by Edmund Gosse;

- Jonathan Swift by Charles Whibley;

- An Essay on Modern Education;

- An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen;

- Of the Education of Ladies;

- Some Thoughts on Freethinking;

- Hints on Good Manners;

- Resolutions for Old Age;

- Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation;

- A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind;

- Of Mean and Great Figures Made by Several Persons;

- A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue;

- A Treatise on good Manners;

- A Modest Proposal.



Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".