Gulliver's Travels and Other WritingsRandom House Publishing Group, 1962 - 656 páginas 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. |
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... took my foot , shoe and all ; which was indeed a prodigious leap . I had the good fortune to divert the Emperor one ... took nine of these sticks , and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure , two foot and a half ...
... took my foot , shoe and all ; which was indeed a prodigious leap . I had the good fortune to divert the Emperor one ... took nine of these sticks , and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure , two foot and a half ...
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... took my tackling , and fas- tening a hook to the hole at the prow of each , I tied all the cords together at the end . While I was thus employed , the enemy discharged several thousand arrows , many of which stuck in my hands and face ...
... took my tackling , and fas- tening a hook to the hole at the prow of each , I tied all the cords together at the end . While I was thus employed , the enemy discharged several thousand arrows , many of which stuck in my hands and face ...
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... took out my knife and fork , and fell to eat , which gave them exceeding delight . The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup , which held about two gallons , and filled it with drink ; I took up the vessel with much difficulty in ...
... took out my knife and fork , and fell to eat , which gave them exceeding delight . The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup , which held about two gallons , and filled it with drink ; I took up the vessel with much difficulty in ...
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A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT | 35 |
The Emperor of Lilliput attended by several | 45 |
The author diverts the Emperor and | 53 |
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