This volume includes "The Battle of the Books" and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, " both which accompanied "A Tale of a Tub" on its first publication in 1704.
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, religi...