Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues

Jonathan Swift

Verlag: Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited, London, 1927

Beschreibung

A scarce reprint of Swift's treatise, a satirical commentary on upper class conversation. This work was originally published under the title 'A Complete Collection of Genteel and ingenious Conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best Companies of England'. It is a satirical commentary of the mundane and banal discourses had by the upper classes of eighteenth century England.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was a satirist, essayist and poet, remembered in particular for 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Tale of a Tub' and 'A Modest Proposal'. He followed in the satirical tradition of the likes of Horace and Juvenal.A scarce edition. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are uncut and bright and clean. Near Fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 765R44

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues

Verlag: Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1927

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Near Fine

Art des Buches: book