Homeland of caricature and parody

The collection includes essays, diaries, letters, travel notes, aphorisms, pamphlets, biographies, memoirs and essays of the best English writers-satirikov XVIII century.
From the feeding of Swift and Stern, with the diaries of Samuel Pips, with novels-parody of seventeen-year-old Jane Osten, with fragments from the biography of the largest English educator Samuel Johnson, written by James Bosuell, the Russian reader is already familiar, but with Essays Daniel Defo and Oliver Goldsmith, with Edmund"s essay Berk, with pamphletes and footholding parodies and road essays of Smollett, Fanni Bernie"s memoirs and the farce of Robert Brinsley Sheridan will meet for the first time.
In the anthology of the English documentary prose of the XVIII century, which is published in our country for the first time, the reader will find literary-critical essays dedicated to every author, as well as detailed comments