The Benefit of Farting Explained

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Swift Klappentext What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful a posteriori fashion, that most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex are due to flatulences not adequately vented. To complete the excursus into this venerable and age-old human activity, Charles James Fox's Essay upon Wind provides a detailed analysis, classification and history of farting, peppered with wit and curious anecdotes about particularly eminent farters of the past. Zusammenfassung Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful a posteriori fashion, that most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex are due to flatulences not adequately vented.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Swift
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2016
• EAN: 9781847496805
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-680-5
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Alma Quirky Classics; Quirky Classics; Alma Quirky Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HUMOR / Form / Parodies, Literary essays, satire; farting