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.