Gulliver's Travels and Other WritingsRandom House Publishing Group, 1962 - 656 pages 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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Page 64
... Blefuscu , and sue for peace . The Empress's apartment on , fire by an acci- dent ; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace . The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north- northeast side of Lilliput , from ...
... Blefuscu , and sue for peace . The Empress's apartment on , fire by an acci- dent ; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace . The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north- northeast side of Lilliput , from ...
Page 78
... Blefuscu . His reception there . Before I proceed to give an account of my leaving this kingdom , it may be proper to inform the reader of a private intrigue which had been for two months forming against me . I had been hitherto all my ...
... Blefuscu . His reception there . Before I proceed to give an account of my leaving this kingdom , it may be proper to inform the reader of a private intrigue which had been for two months forming against me . I had been hitherto all my ...
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... Blefuscu . But I was afterwards given privately to under- stand , that his Imperial Majesty , never imagining I had the least notice of his designs , believed I was only gone to Blefuscu in performance of my promise , according to the ...
... Blefuscu . But I was afterwards given privately to under- stand , that his Imperial Majesty , never imagining I had the least notice of his designs , believed I was only gone to Blefuscu in performance of my promise , according to the ...
Contents
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT | 35 |
The Emperor of Lilliput attended by several | 45 |
The author diverts the Emperor and | 53 |
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