Jonathan Swift
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Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift's unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people, Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny, the ruined yet magical country of Laputa, and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe....
23) Adventure Tales
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Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Adventure stories have captivated audiences throughout history. In this anthology of classic tales, action-packed journeys and perilous voyages come to life. Including Jonathan Swift's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND, and H.G. Wells's THE TIME MACHINE, this timeless collection is perfect for the...
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In "A Modest Proposal," first published in 1729, Jonathan Swift heaps scorn on then-current political theory and reveals the appalling suffering taking place in Ireland - not through direct reporting, but through mock suggestions on what to do with the poor; they should sell their children for food. "The chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it," wrote Jonathan Swift in a letter to his friend Alexander...
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Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series of travels, but each time he finds himself shipwrecked in new and unfamiliar lands. And how unfamiliar … In Lilliput, everyone is tiny, and it takes thousands of them to capture him; in Brodingnag, they're huge and treat him as a sort of living toy; in Laputa, they live on a floating island inventing impossibly mad projects; and the Houyhnhnms are horses! But through all his adventures, Gulliver learns to see...
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Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer,...
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2014
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Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Gulliver's Reisen + Irland + Tagebuch für Stella + Die Bücherschlacht + Ein Märchen von einer Tonne + Unterricht für alle Arten unerfahrner Bedienten (Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. -- Inhalt: -- IrlandTagebuch für StellaDie BücherschlachtEin Märchen von einer TonneUnterricht für alle Arten unerfahrner...
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2014
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Gulliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships". In his travels Gulliver visits the Land of Lilliput, where he towers over the local inhabitants, the land of Brobdingnag where he is much smaller than the citizens, the floating island of Laputa, infested with fanatical scientists who in their obsession with reason
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[2010]
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"Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly "modern" protagonist, Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment, from its worship of science to its neglect of traditional philosophy and theology. In Swift's eighteenth century, as in our twenty-first, a war being fought between the "ancients"and the "moderns", between those rooted...
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2008
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A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical...
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