Jonathan Swift Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (1704)
  2. Journal to Stella (1766)
  3. The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift (1940)
  4. The Portable Swift (1948)
  5. Selected Prose Works of Jonathan Swift (1949)
  6. Selected Writings (1950)
  7. Collected Poems: v. 1 (1958)
  8. The Poems of Jonathan Swift (1958)
  9. Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces 1733-42 (1959)
  10. Selected Prose and Poetry (1959)
  11. Best of Swift (1967)
  12. Selected Poems (1967)
  13. Stella’s Birth-Days (1967)
  14. The Prose Writings (1968)
  15. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Pope, Swift and Gay (1972)
  16. The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism (1973)
  17. Jonathan Swift, the Complete Poems (1983)
  18. Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works (1984)
  19. Major Works (2003)
  20. Jonathan Swift: Poems selected by Derek Mahon (2006)

Chapbooks In Publication Order

  1. Cadenus And Vanessa (2010)
  2. Baucis and Philemon (2017)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Battle of the Books (1704)
  2. Abolishing Christianity and Other Short Pieces (1708)
  3. A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (1729)
  4. Directions to Servants (1731)
  5. Polite Conversation (1738)
  6. The Drapier’s Letters (1935)
  7. The Letters of Jonathan Swift to Charles Ford (1935)
  8. The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers (1940)
  9. The Examiner and Other Pieces Written in 1710-11 (1940)
  10. Irish Tracts 1720-1723 and Sermons (1948)
  11. Political Tracts, 1711-1713 (1951)
  12. The History of the Last Four Years of the Queen (1951)
  13. Irish Tracts 1728-1733 (1955)
  14. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. (1963)
  15. A discourse of the contests and dissentions between the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome with the consequences they had upon both those states (1967)
  16. Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1969)
  17. A Discourse Concerning The Mechanical Operation Of The Spirit (1970)
  18. The Account Books of Jonathan Swift (1984)
  19. The Last Will and Testament of the Revd. Dr. Jonathan Swift (1984)
  20. Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and the Medley (1985)
  21. Service Is No Inheritance, Or, Rules to Servants According to the REV. Dr. Swift (1987)
  22. Swift’s Irish pamphlets (1990)
  23. The Intelligencer (1992)
  24. Sayings of Jonathan Swift (1994)
  25. A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1995)
  26. The benefit of farting explain’d (1996)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999)

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Jonathan Swift Books Overview

Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos. Beneath the surface of this enchanting fantasy lurks a devastating critique of human malevolence, stupidity, greed, vanity, and short sightedness. A brilliant combination of adventure, humor, and philosophy, Gulliver s Travels is one of literature s most durable masterpieces. Michael Seidel is Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on eighteenth century literature. His books include Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne 1979, Exile and the Narrative Imagination 1986, and Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel 1991.

A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

This volume contains the three works which together make up Jonathan Swift’s early satiric and intellectual masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub: the Tale itself, The Battel of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Incorporating much new knowledge, this edition provides the first full scholarly treatment of this important work for fifty years. The introduction discusses publication, composition, and authorship; sources, analogues and generic models; reception; and religious, scientific and literary contexts including the ancients and moderns controversy. Detailed explanatory notes address many previously unexplained issues in this famously rich and difficult work. Texts have been fully collated and edited according to modern principles and are accompanied with a textual introduction and full textual apparatus. Illustrations include title pages, the eight engravings from the fifth edition, and original designs for these engravings. Extensive associated contemporary materials, including Edmund Curll’s Key and William Wotton’s Observations, are provided.

Journal to Stella

INTRODUCTION AT the period of Swifts residence in England, he was possessed, in an eminent degree, of many of the qualities which are the surest passports to social favour. He was not only a man of the highest talents, but he enjoyed, in full extent, all the public notice and distinction which the reputation of such talents can confer. He moved in the highest circles, was concerned in the most important business of the time, and had all the advantage of a name blown wide abroad in the world. In private society, the varied richness of his conversation, the extent of his knowledge, his unequalled powers of wit and humour, even the somewhat cynical eccentricities of his temper, joined to form a character equally interesting from its merit and originality. His manners, in these his better days, were but slightly tinged with the peculiarities which afterwards marked them more unpleasantly, and his ease and address were such as became the companion of statesmen and courtiers He moved, and bowd, and talked with too much grace, Nor shewd the parson in his gait or face…
. Amongst the families in London where Swift was chiefly domesticated, was that of Mrs. Vanhomrigh, a widow lady of fortune and respectability, who had two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter was Esther Vanhomrigh, better known by the poetical appellation of Vanessa. Of her personal charms we are left in some uncertainty, since Cadenus has said little upon that topic, and, by other authorities, they have been rather depreciated. But, when Swift became intimate in the family, she was not yet twenty years old, lively and graceful, yet with a greater inclination for reading and mental cultivation than is usually combined with a gay temper. This last attribute had fatal attractions for Swift, who, in intercourse with his female friends, had a marked pleasure in directing their studies, and acting as their literary Mentor a dangerous character for him who assumes it when genius, docility, and gratitude, are combined in a young and interesting pupil. From several passages in the Journal, Swifts constant and intimate familiarity in the Vanhomrigh family is manifest and it is plain also, he soon felt that his acquaintance with Miss Esther was such as must necessarily give pain to Stella. While Vanessa was occupying much of his time, and much doubtless of his thoughts, she is never once mentioned in the Journal directly by name, and is only twice casually indicated by the title of Vanhomrighs eldest daughter. There was, therefore, a consciousness on Swifts part, that his attachment to his younger pupil was of a nature which could not be gratifying to her predecessor, although he probably shut his own eyes to the consequences of an intimacy which he wished to conceal from those of Stella. Miss Vanhomrigh, in the meanwhile, sensible of the pleasure which Swift received from her society, and of the advantages of youth and fortune which she possessed, and ignorant of the peculiar circumstances in which he stood with respect to another, naturally, and surely without offence either to reason or virtue, gave way to the hope of forming a union with a man, whose talents had first attracted her admiration, and whose attentions, in the course of their mutual studies, had, by degrees, gained her affections, and seemed to warrant his own. It is easy for those who look back on this melancholy story, to blame the assiduity of Swift, or the imprudence of Vanessa…

The Portable Swift

THE CAUSTIC GENIUS OF JANATHAN SWIFT; GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, COMPLETE; EXCERPTS INCLUDING; A MODEST PROPOSAL; LETTERS TO ALEXANDER POPE; JOHN GAY; JOHN ARBUTHNOT AND OTHERS; POETRY INCLUDING; VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT;

Selected Poems

This selection of Swift’s poetry is drawn from ‘The Penguin English Poets Complete Poems’, edited by Pat Rogers.

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Pope, Swift and Gay

‘Miscellanies in Prose and Verse’ 1727 32 contained contributions by three of the leading satirists of the early 18th century, published at the time when all three were at the height of their powers. The set of the ‘Miscellanies’ from which the present edition is taken has similar annotations, possibly in Swift’s hand, but almost certainly from a Swift source. Unlike the set in the Rothschild library, it attributes writings to Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. The allusions to Swift largely coincide with those that are present in the Rothschild copy. this edition contains a full analysis of the attributions from the two original copies.

The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism

This volume contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Swift’s major works, as well as a generous selection of his poetry and other writings. Included are Gulliver’s Travels, A Tale of a Tub, The Battel of the Books, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, numerous essays and other prose pieces, and poems, among them several that are rarely reprinted. All of the texts are scrupulously edited and annotated. Backgrounds includes correspondence between Swift and members of his circle and observations by his contemporaries. Criticism offers evaluations by Norman O. Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan Bloom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., A. E. Dyson, William Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams, Martin Price, Robert M. Adams, and Jay Arnold Levine. An Annotated Bibliography guides the reader to important works for further study.

Jonathan Swift, the Complete Poems

In this complete edition of Swift’s poems, Professor Pat Rogers has re established the texts by reference to the manuscripts and early editions. He has modernized the spelling and included several poems collected for the first time. The notes, which take account of recent scholarship, explicate Swift’s meaning more comprehensively. This volume also contains a Biographical Dictionary of Swift’s comtemporaries.

Major Works

This authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift’s fifty-year career–prose, poetry, and letters–to give the essence of his work and thinking. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 is best known as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature. But in addition to this classic fictional satire, Swift wrote numerous works concerning politics, religion, and Ireland, some savage, others humorous, all suffused with his tremendous wit and inventiveness. This anthology includes satirical works such as A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, political pamphlets, pieces for the popular press, poems, and a generous selection from Swift’s correspondence. Presented chronologically, the anthology offers a new and clearer awareness of the unity as well as the complexity of Swift’s vision, and the powerful bonds between disparate pieces.

Jonathan Swift: Poems selected by Derek Mahon

Presents a biography of Jonathan Swift 1667 1745, who was born in Dublin, of English parents, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. London based for many years, and a noted satirist during the reign of Queen Anne, he returned to Dublin in 1713 as Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral. His popular work ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ appeared in 1726.

Cadenus And Vanessa

Wisdom’s Above Suspecting Wiles; The Queen Of Learning Gravely Smiles, Down From Olympus Comes With Joy, Mistakes Vanessa For A Boy; Then Sows Within Her Tender Mind Seeds Long Unknown To Womankind.

The Battle of the Books

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: darling of his mother, above all her children, and she resolved to go and comfort him. But first, according to the good old custom of deities, she cast about to change her shape, for fear the divinity of her countenance might dazzle his mortal sight, and overcharge the rest of his senses. She therefore gathered up her person into an octavo compass, her body grew white and arid, and split in pieces with dryness, the thick turned into pasteboard, and the thin into paper, upon which her parents and children artfully strowed a black juice, or decoction of gall and soot, in form of letters : her head, and voice, and spleen, kept their primitive form : and that which before was a cover of skin did still continue so; in which guise she marched on towards the Moderns, undistinguishable in shape and dress from the divine B ntl y, W tt n’s dearest friend. ‘Brave W tt n,’ said the goddess, ‘why do our troops stand idle here, to spend their present vigour, and opportunity of this day ? Away ! let us haste to the generals, and advise to give the onset immediately.’ Having spoke thus, she took the ugliest of her monsters, full glutted from her spleen,and flung it invisibly into his mouth, which flying straight up into his head, squeezed out his eye balls, gave him a distorted look, and half overturned his brain. Then she privately ordered two of her beloved children, Dullness and Ill Manners, closely to attend his person in all encounters. Having thus accoutred him, she vanished in a mist, and the hero perceived it was the goddess his mother. The destined hour of fate being now arrived, the fight began ; whereof before I dare adventure to make a particular description, I must, after the example of other authors, petition for a hundred tongues, and mouths, and hands, and pens, which would all…

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

There are many editions of A Modest Proposal. This educational edition was created for self improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings. A running thesaurus at the bottom of each page is useful to students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT , SAT , AP Advanced Placement , GRE , LSAT , GMAT or similar examinations. This edition exposes the reader to a maximum number of difficult, and often encountered words in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. PSAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE , AP and Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.

Directions to Servants

Directions to Servants is one of Jonathan Swift’s last completed works. It displays all his caustic skill as a satirist and his unerring eye for the little annoyances of life. Taking the form of a handbook of manners, and addressed to each servant individually, Directions to Servants is the ultimate upstairs/downstairs battle. With scathing wit, Swift pits master against servant in an endless struggle for order, frugality, and the best bits of the roast. His servants are lazy, profligate, and acquisitive always on the lookout for a shilling to be made on the sale of leftovers, or a half bottle of wine to share with the cook. Written in Swift s final years of sanity, Directions to Servants is a last hilarious outpouring of cynicism at a lifetime s accumulation of poor service. Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift is best remembered for his philosophical parody Gulliver s Travels.

Polite Conversation

A companion piece to the popular Directions to Servants, Polite Conversation is a witty, brilliantly conceived treatise on manners and small talk from the master of English satire. Beginning with an ‘expert’ introduction to the perils of ill educated discourse, Swift seeks to offer a remedy for conversational disasters. His aim: to ensure one is always equipped with the correct response, no matter the situation, and the means with which to stoke up conversation when it lapses into awkward silence. To prove his theses, he then proffers three mock dialogues, citing the drawing room as the most suitable place to display the art of elegant and Polite Conversation. The result is a hilarious and deeply ironic analysis that is as relevant today as when it was first conceived. Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift 1667 1745 is best remembered for his philosophical parody Gulliver’s Travels.

The Drapier’s Letters

Drapier’s Letters is the collective name for a series of seven pamphlets written by the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Jonathan Swift. The letters were written, between 1724 and 1725, in order to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition of a privately minted copper coinage, which Swift believed to be of inferior quality. William Wood was granted a patent to mint the coin, and Swift saw the licensing of the patent to Wood as corrupt. In response to Wood’s patent, The Drapier’s Letters emphasize the constitutional and financial independence of the Irish kingdom. Since this subject was politically sensitive, Swift wrote under the pseudonym M. B. Drapier to hide from retaliation. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More e Books from MobileReference Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation TM All fiction books are only $0. 99. All collections are only $5. 99Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices Search for any title: enter mobi shortened MobileReference and a keyword; for example: mobi ShakespeareTo view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible Modern Translation, Mormon Church’s Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Co*cktails, Astrology Reference: The World’s Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals

The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers

I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than that it hath been in all ages defended by many learned men, and among the rest by Socrates himself, whom I look upon as undoubtedly the wisest of uninspir’d mortals.

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D.

The collected letters of Jonathan Swift D.D., Irish dean and celebrated author of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth century England, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters. In the half century from 1690 to 1740 some two hundred and thirty contemporaries, in all walks of life, thought to preserve his autographs: among them were his literary friends, his printers and publishers, politicians of the day in England and Ireland, his ecclesiastical superiors and other clergy, his friends of the nobility, and closer friends and relatives. He also diligently kept many of their replies. Together these project a marvellously animated panorama not only of his own life, but of his varied acquaintance, and the scenes of London, Dublin, and rural Ireland through a deeply interesting historical era. This entirely new edition prepared by a recognized authority presents over 1500 letters, derived from the earliest authentic texts in manuscript or print, and provides the most comprehensive commentary to date, based upon published and unpublished research of the last thirty years.

A Discourse Concerning The Mechanical Operation Of The Spirit

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Tale of a Tub and Other Works, by Jonathan Swift. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417914122.

Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and the Medley

In this edition the text of The Examiner is presented as Swift wrote it, not as it was revised for publication by George Faulkner in 1738. And for the first time Swift’s Examiners are juxtaposed with the Medleys of Arthur Mainwaring that replied to them every week. They bring the reader close to the actualit’s of London between November 1710 and June 1711. From the literary point of view The Examiner is important because it contains some of Swift’s best work. Even under the pressure of weekly publication he was still able to achieve, in Herbert Davis’s words, ‘an aloofness as if beyond bias and passion’.

Swift’s Irish pamphlets

A selection of Swift’s Irish pamphlets, illustrating the full range of his interests and commitments. Also included is a special appendix which lists all his prose writing on Ireland.

The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction

This unique anthology illustrates the full range of Irish fiction from Gulliver’s Travels to young contemporary writers like Roddy Doyle and Emma Donoghue. Including self contained sections from novels as well as short stories, all the most important writers are represented, from Swift and Sterne through Joyce, Beckett and Wilde to modern masters like Banville and William Trevor. Colm Toibin’s long introduction describes the contexts and particular strengths of Irish fiction.

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