Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1603037225
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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A voyage to Brobdingnag
Jonathan Swift
Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1726
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:504239514
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Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:795328665
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Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307400840
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Pdf
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Jonathan Swift
Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Pets
ISBN : 1590481992
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms by Jonathan Swift Pdf
According to legend, when the author and Historical Long Rider Jonathan Swift made an equestrian journey across Ireland, he arrived at a remarkable conclusion. The beloved mare who carried him faithfully was a paragon of reason, understanding and sympathy, unlike his fellow human beings. At the conclusion of the ride, Swift penned his famous book, Gulliver's Travels. It told the tale of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's captain who sailed to four remarkable kingdoms. While the simple children's version focuses on the little people of Lilliput, it was the talking horses found in the fourth adventure which outraged civilised English society. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms recounts how Captain Gulliver's crew mutinied and set him ashore on an unknown island. There he encountered a race of savage humanoids who threatened to kill him. The bewildered traveller was rescued by horses, who it turns out could speak and in fact ruled the island. What follows is an astonishing tale that turns man's definition of himself on its head. The naked, warlike and murderous humans are known as Yahoos, a term still used today as a synonym for "ruffian." In order to draw attention to the evils of materialism and elitism, Swift described the Yahoos as savage creatures with selfish habits, who are obsessed with digging pretty stones from the mud. In stark contrast the Houyhnhnms, which in their language means "the perfection of nature," are a race of intelligent horses that enjoy a peaceful society based upon reason. Though he is biologically akin to the Yahoos, Gulliver prefers the company of his benevolent equine hosts. When he learns to converse with the horses, Gulliver attempts to explain human society. His equine hosts are perplexed with the alien concepts of greed, war and injustice. Nor do they have a word for 'lie, ' and must substitute the phrase "to say a thing which is not." When Gulliver reluctantly returns to England, he finds the company of his countrymen, whom he now views as Yahoos, so intolerable that he spends most of his time in the stable near his home. Thus, this equine episode is the keystone of Gulliver's Travels and reflects Swift's disenchantment with popular society. Originally it was believed that A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms was a metaphor used by Swift to highlight England's treatment of slaves as lesser human beings. More recently, it has been described as an early example of animal rights, in that Gulliver's role reversal highlighted how cruelly English horses were treated. First released anonymously in 1726, it sold out in less than a week. Since then, the challenging tale has never been out of print. Nor has there arrived a human who has answered the challenge Swift wrote for his own epitaph. "Go forth, Voyager, and copy, if you can, this vigorous champion of Liberty."
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Satire
ISBN : 1582791813
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Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Spark Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1411407350
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift by Anonim Pdf
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes books contain complete plot summaries and analyses, key facts about the featured work, analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and explanations of important quotations.
Gulliver's Travels (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Stephen Stertz
Author : Stephen Stertz
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 0738673544
Gulliver's Travels (MAXNotes Literature Guides) by Stephen Stertz Pdf
REA's MAXnotes for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1771
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435065340960
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A User's Guide to Melancholy
Mary Ann Lund
Author : Mary Ann Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838849
A User's Guide to Melancholy by Mary Ann Lund Pdf
400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.
Lilliput
Sam Gayton
Author : Sam Gayton
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781561459834
Lilliput by Sam Gayton Pdf
In a city full of giants, can one tiny girl find her way home? She is a girl three inches tall with eyes like drops of dew. Her clothes are cut from handkerchiefs and stitched with spider silk. For half her life, she has been suspended in a birdcage while Gulliver, her giant kidnapper, sits below her, writing in a leather-bound book the size of a house. Her name is Lily, and tonight she is planning her 35th escape attempt. She is going to find a way to get home. To Lilliput. Inspired by Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput is an exhilarating and imaginative adventure filled with cunning escape plans, evil clock makers, and talkative parrots. Join Lily as she travels through eighteenth-century London—over rooftops, down chimneys, and into chocolate shops—on a journey to find the one place in the world where she belongs...home.
The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill
Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780552775489
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill Pdf
Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of finding her way home again.After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa. Lawrence Hill's epic novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman.
Gulliver's Travels (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Stephen Stertz
Author : Stephen Stertz
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780738673547
Gulliver's Travels (MAXNotes Literature Guides) by Stephen Stertz Pdf
REA's MAXnotes for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
The Scottish Chiefs, a Romance
Jane Porter
Author : Jane Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:V000173841
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Spark Notes
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1586633783
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf
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