Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Irish author, clergyman, satirist. born in Dublin in 1667. Studied in Kikenny Grammar School and at Trinity College in Dublin, left the…
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Utopia (Latin meaning “A little, true book, not less beneficial than enjoyable, about how things should be in a state and about the new island…
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers’ Register 2 December 1578 and published that same year.…
The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one…
Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two…
first published on 25 April 1719, a travelogue. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character…
A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to…
A prose satire Plot: Tale of a Tub comprises the tale itself, an allegory of the Reformation in the story of brothers Peter, Martin, and…
“The Battle of the Books” is the name of a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his…