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.