Polite Conversation, In Three Dialogues (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues by Jonathan Swift.Satirical writer Jonathan Swift published Educated Conversation in 1738. It consists of three satirical dialogues at breakfast, dinner, and tea, presented as a guide to 'Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, according to the most polite way and method now used in the court, and in the Best Companies in England '. The text is full of phrases, colloquialisms, jargon, oaths, exclamations, greetings, farewells and all kinds of banality. Various features, such as the introduction of a comment with prayer, come or faith, capture a polite conversation of the period. Swift can scoff at phrases that were deemed too polite or archaic even at the time. Jonathan Swift (Dublin, November 30, 1667-ibid., October 19, 1745) was an Irish satirical writer.His main work is Gulliver's Travels, ? which constitutes one of the most bitter, and at the same time satirical, criticisms that have been written against society and the human condition. A member of the Scriblerus Club, he anonymously published or used the pseudonyms of Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff and M. B. Drapier to hide his satires. Of English parents, a modest lawyer and a housewife,