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A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

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Oxford
Kiadó: Oxford University Press
Kiadás helye: Oxford
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 237 oldal
Sorozatcím: The World's Classics
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Méret: 19 cm x 12 cm
ISBN: 0-19-281689-6
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W O R L D'S CLASSICS
Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
Edited with an Introduction by Angus Ross and David Woolley
A Tale of a Tub, the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years, is in many respects his most brilliant achievement, characterized in Dr Johnson's words by 'a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and a vivacity of diction'.
This volume includes The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the SyOiWi which accompaniedY4 Tale of a Tub on its first publication in 1704. Additions, published in somewhat mysterious circumstances many years later, are also included, together with a fresh discussion of the controversy about the authorship of A Tale of a Tub.
A useful feature of this edition is the accompanying substantial selection of passages from works by Fontenelle, Sir William Temple, Wotton, Richard Bentley, and others, which give the reader some idea of the context of these allusive satires in the religious, intellectual,... Tovább

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W O R L D'S CLASSICS
Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
Edited with an Introduction by Angus Ross and David Woolley
A Tale of a Tub, the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years, is in many respects his most brilliant achievement, characterized in Dr Johnson's words by 'a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and a vivacity of diction'.
This volume includes The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the SyOiWi which accompaniedY4 Tale of a Tub on its first publication in 1704. Additions, published in somewhat mysterious circumstances many years later, are also included, together with a fresh discussion of the controversy about the authorship of A Tale of a Tub.
A useful feature of this edition is the accompanying substantial selection of passages from works by Fontenelle, Sir William Temple, Wotton, Richard Bentley, and others, which give the reader some idea of the context of these allusive satires in the religious, intellectual, and political controversy of the day, on which the power of Swift's imagination builds to place him in the company of writers such as Rabelais, Sterne, James Joyce, and Borges. Vissza

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