The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces - Couverture souple

Swift, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438501056 ISBN 13 : 9781438501055

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2008

Synopsis

Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist. He wrote for the Whigs and then for the Tories. His best known works are Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub. The Battle of the Books is a short satire depicting a literal battle between books housed in the St James Palace.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet. He was also the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub, he is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He published all of his works under pseudonyms — such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier — or anonymously. Towards the end of his life, he became mentally unstable, and his friends (fearing he would be taken advantage of) had him declared of 'unsound mind and memory'. When he died, his fortune (£12,000) was left to found a hospital for the mentally ill, which still exists today as a psychiatric hospital.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Los libros de la Royal Library que defienden a los antiguos y a los modernos están preparados para luchar por decidir qué bando debe ocupar legítimamente la cima del Parnaso: los representantes del mundo clásico greco-latino o los modernos del siglo XVIIII. Esta sátira narra de manera humorística el clásico debate entre los Antiguos y los Modernos, una cuestión cultural muy seria en los siglos XVII y XVIII.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438501056
• ISBN 13: 9781438501055
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
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