Jonathan Swift S Gulliver S Travels

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1603037225

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Satire
ISBN : 1582791813

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553212327

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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read “It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery,” remarked Alexander Pope when Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. One of the unique books of world literature, Swift's masterful satire describes the astonishing voyages of one Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, to surreal kingdoms inhabited by miniature people and giants, quack philosophers and scientists, horses endowed with reason and men who behave like beasts. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels is a savage parody on man and his institutions that has captivated readers for nearly three centuries. As bestselling author and critic Allan Bloom observed: “Gulliver's Travels is an amazing rhetorical achievement. Swift had not only the judgment with which to arrive at a reasoned view of the world but the fancy by means of which he could re-create that world in a form which teaches where argument fails and which satisfies all while misleading none.” This representative collection of Swift’s major writings includes the complete Gulliver’s Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub, “The Battle of the Books,” “A Modest Proposal,” “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity,” “The Bickerstaff Papers,” and many more of his brilliantly satirical works. Here too are selections from Swift’s poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella. Swift’s savage ridicule, corrosive wit, and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904633714

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

.0000000000Jonathan Swift's masterpiece is the finest satire in the English language. Lemuel Gulliver's adventures with the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput and the giants of Brobdingnag are familiar from modern abridged adaptations, but the scientists and philosophers of Laputa, the intelligent, horselike Houyhnhnms and the bestial Yahoos provide further opportunities for Swift to satirise society in a manner just as relevant today as it was in the eighteenth century.lllustrated by by Arthur Rackham, with an Afterword by Henry Hitchings.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1938-01-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789351864127

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GULLIVERS TRAVELS (CLASS IX) by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel was first published in 1726, yet it is still valid today. Gulliver’s Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship’s surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance. His travels take him to Lilliput where he is a giant observing tiny people. In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. The flying island of Laputa is the scene of his next voyage. The people plan and plot as their country lies in ruins. It is a world of illusion and distorted values. The fourth and final voyage takes him to the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses who rule the land.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438113906

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift, New Edition by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of essays analyzing Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels, including a chronology of the author's works and life.

Author : Roger D. Lund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317722830

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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels by Roger D. Lund Pdf

An extremely complex, yet widely studied text, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ranks as one of the most scathing satires of British and European society ever published. Students will therefore welcome the publication of Roger Lund’s sourcebook, which provides a clear way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surounds the text. This indispensable guide presents: extensive introductory comment on the contexts and many interpretations of the text, from publication to present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Gudies to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Swift’s controversial novel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:795328665

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Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015078565911

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : JONATHAN SWIFT
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) by JONATHAN SWIFT Pdf

Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships" (or simply "Gulliver's Travels") is the best known work of Jonathan Swift which brought him worldwide fame. This edition includes more than 100 black-and-white illustrations by Charles Edmund Brock. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. Sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six, Swift later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. Among Swift's best known works is his ironic masterpiece, 'A Modest Proposal' (1729), and his novel, Gulliver's Travels (1726). Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) If you enjoyed Gulliver's Travels, you might like H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, also available in Penguin Classics. 'A masterwork of irony ... that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creativity of imagination' Malcolm Bradbury Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) “Every Man Desires to Live Long, But No Man Wishes to Be Old.” Shipwrecked on his first voyage, he wakes up in Lilliput—a kingdom of tiny people who are one-twelfth the height of human beings.. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) Blown off course by the gales on his second, he is sold to the queen by a giant farmer in Brobdingnag.. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) Attacked by pirates on his third, marooned near a desolate island, he discovers Laputa—the flying island with educated but impractical people.. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) And as a captain of a merchantman on his fourth voyage, abandoned on a landing boat by his crew, he meets Houyhnhnms—a race of talking horses who are the rulers and Yahoos—the deformed creatures who are human beings in their base form. Meet Lemuel Gulliver, as he describes his adventurous voyages across the islands he lands upon. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) A universally-read satirical fantasy, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels continues to remain a classic of English literature even more than two and a half centuries after it was first published. Gulliver's Travels (with illustrations) Gulliver, an adventurous traveler, sails through the unknown waters of seas and oceans. A storm ruptures his ship and the sailor ends up unconscious on the shore of a mysterious country. Having woken up, the sailor finds himself surrounded by tiny men, who are trying to tie him and chain him to the ground. He easily gets rid of the restraints, only to find himself dragged into the epicenter of the civil war that began because of a mere trifle. Jonathan Swift's satiric-fantasy novel ‘Gulliver's Travels’ cleverly mocks human and social flaws.

Author : Jonathan Swift,Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011790057

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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants by Jonathan Swift,Walter Scott Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Welbeck Editions
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1913519449

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : epubli
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783748554318

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Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

"The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother's side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours." "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is a brilliant political satire and a classic of world literature.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781586173951

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

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 in the traditions of the West and those seeking to uproot tradition to make way for dangerous and ultimatcly destructive new ideas. Swift's satire on the threats posed by the Enlightenment and the embryonic spirit of secular fundamentalism makes Gulliver's Travels priceless reading for today's defenders of tradition. Yet Swift's subtlety has bemused many modern critics, with the lamentable of result that this classic of western civilization is often misread and misunderstood. This new critical edition, edited by Dutton kearney of Aquinas College in Nashville, contains detailed notes to the text, bringing it to life for today's reader, and a selection of tradition-oriented essays by some of the finest contemporay Swift scholars. The Ignatius Critical Editions Series represents a tradition-oriented approach to reading the Classics of world literature. While many modern critical editions have succumbed to the fads of modernism and post-modernism, this series concentrates on critical examinations informed by our Judco-Christian heritage as passed down through the ages---the same heritage that provided the crucible in which the great authors formed these classic works. Edited by acclaimed literary biographer Joseph Pearce, the lgnatius Critical Editions ensure that readings of the works are filtered through the richness of Western tradition, meeting the authors in their clement, instead of the currently popular method of deconstructing a classic to fit a modern mindsct---a lamentable flaw that often proliferates in other series of critical editions. The Series is ideal for anyone wishing to understand the great works of Western Civilization, enabling the modern reader to enjoy these classics in the company of some of the finest literature professors alive today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0760710570

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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels by Anonim Pdf