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The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers
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This collection gathers Jonathan Swift's satirical essays written under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, which mocked the astrologer John Partridge by predicting and then reporting his death. It suits readers of eighteenth-century English satire and those studying Swift's prose and literary hoaxes.
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
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