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Polite Conversation

Polite Conversation

Truss, Lynne
Swift, Jonathan

Paperback

Series: Hesperus Classics

Classic Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1843911477
ISBN13: 9781843911470
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: May 1 2007
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.45 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
A companion piece to the popular Directions to Servants, Polite Conversation is a witty, brilliantly conceived treatise on manners and small talk from the master of English satire. Beginning with an expert introduction to the perils of ill-educated discourse, Swift seeks to offer a remedy for conversational disasters. His aim: to ensure one is always equipped with the correct response, no matter the situation, and the means with which to stoke up conversation when it lapses into awkward silence. To prove his theses, he then proffers three mock dialogues, citing the drawing room as the most suitable place to display the art of elegant and polite conversation. The result is a hilarious and deeply ironic analysis that is as relevant today as when it was first conceived. Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best remembered for his philosophical parody Gulliver's Travels.

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