The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, The Battle of the Books, A Tale of a Tub, A Journal to Stella ... Collections With Active Table of Contents)

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This collection gathers together the works by Jonathan Swift in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!

The Battle of the Books,
A Tale of a Tub,
The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers,
The Journal to Stella,
An Argument against Abolishing Christianity,
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue,
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World,
A Modest Proposal,
The Lady's Dressing Room,
The Poems Of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Complete Vol. 1-2,
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 03: Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church, Volume 1,
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 04: Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church, Volume 2,
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 06: The Drapier's Letters,
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 09: Contributions to The Tatler,
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 10: Historical Writings
The Examiner,
The Spectator, and The Intelligencer,

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
Swift's first major prose work, A Tale of a Tub, demonstrates many of the themes and stylistic techniques he would employ in his later work. It is at once wildly playful and funny while being pointed and harshly critical of its targets. In its main thread, the Tale recounts the exploits of three sons, representing the main threads of Christianity, who receive a bequest from their father of a coat each, with the added instructions to make no alterations whatsoever. However, the sons soon find that their coats have fallen out of current fashion, and begin to look for loopholes in their father's will that will let them make the needed alterations. As each finds his own means of getting around their father's admonition, they struggle with each other for power and dominance. Inserted into this story, in alternating chapters, the narrator includes a series of whimsical "digressions" on various subjects.
In 1690, Sir William Temple, Swift's patron, published An Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning a defense of classical writing holding up the Epistles of Phalaris as an example. William Wotton responded to Temple with Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning showing that the Epistles were a later forgery. A response by the supporters of the Ancients was then made by Charles Boyle . A further retort on the Modern side came from Richard Bentley, one of the pre-eminent scholars of the day, in his essay Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris . However, the final words on the topic belong to Swift in his Battle of the Books in which he makes a humorous defense on behalf of Temple and the cause of the Ancients. Gulliver's Travels, a large portion of which Swift wrote at Woodbrook House in County Laois, was published in 1726. It is regarded as his masterpiece. .