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Author : Jonathan Jonathan Swift
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels (GoodVibeRead Edition) written by Jonathan Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Hardcover edition includes two books: "A Modest Proposal" and "Gulliver's Travels" ! Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is a satirical essay written to mock the callous and indignant attitude of Ireland's rich towards the poor. In the essay, Swift argues Ireland's economic problems could be lessened by selling poor Irish children as food to the wealthy. First published in 1729, Swift's essay gained international attention as a satire unlike any other published to-date. "A Modest Proposal" helped bring international attention to rising economic uncertainty in Ireland and the plight of the less fortunate. Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726 and is probably the most famous work by Jonathan Swift. It was an instant hit--selling out within a week--and has never been out of print, as well as having been adapted many times. Lemuel Gulliver, an English surgeon on the Antelope, is shipwrecked and washed up on the island of Lilliput, where the inhabitants are less than six inches tall. This part of the book is a thinly veiled attack on the political classes of the time, as the Lilliputians focus on the minutiae of life, most notably the rift which has developed according to which end of a boiled egg gets opened at breakfast--the big end or the little end. On his second recorded journey he is abandoned on an island of giants where he is paraded as a curiosity at local markets and fairs. On his third journey he is marooned by pirates and is rescued by the inhabitants of a floating island devoted to music, mathematics and astronomy. On his final journey he meets the Houyhnhnms, a race of talking horses who have subdued the Yahoos, creatures who resemble humans. On his return to England, Gulliver has a very different outlook on life and views the human race in a very different way. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451685742
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns a children's fantasy and a social satire for adults, Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular adventure tales of all time. 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. He also encounters Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who resemble humans. This edition includes: -A concise introduction that gives readers important background information -A chronology of the author's life and work -A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context -An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations -Detailed explanatory notes -Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work -Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction -A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007382677
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulliver’s Travels (Collins Classics) written by Jonathan Swift and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1772753696
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lusty and uproarious tale of adventure has delighted readers since 1726. Originally intended as biting political satire, the book's imaginative feats have turned it into a classic for the ages—a tale ingrained in our collective consciousness. Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781725862531
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2 in 1: Gulliver's Travels and a Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".cc-by-sa 3.0+ wikipedia

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0141196645
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781544056388
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. He himself claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it".The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery."