Jonathan Swift Audio

This is a collection of poems, old and modern, by an assortment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh poets...

Comedy is totally subjective...

“...you’ll find the sink strike your offended sense with double stink.”

Here, in this unusual collection, are some of the greatest essays in Western literature. Witty, informative and imaginative; the topics vary from starvation in Ireland, fine China, the extension of railways in the Lake District and the tombs in Westminster Abbey.

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Quinbus Fiestrin awakens to find himself tied to the ground...

Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic. The book itself, rather than the bowdlerized versions that have been derived from it, is a savage...

Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon and sea captain, journeys to different islands, where he meets some of the...

In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced.

Gulliver’s Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift…

For anyone with an abiding interest in classic literature, we present this series of concise summaries of some of the most time-worn classics.

Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet...

In "A Modest Proposal," first published in 1729, Jonathan Swift heaps scorn on then-current political...