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 38
... able to work no longer , being already spent with labour while we were in the ship . We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves ; and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north . What ...
... able to work no longer , being already spent with labour while we were in the ship . We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves ; and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north . What ...
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... able to understand most of his questions , and in three months could give him some tol- erable answers . He was extremely curious to know from what part of the country I came , and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature ...
... able to understand most of his questions , and in three months could give him some tol- erable answers . He was extremely curious to know from what part of the country I came , and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature ...
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... able to feed myself with- out lifting one of my forefeet to my mouth : and therefore nature had placed those joints to answer that necessity . He knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind ...
... able to feed myself with- out lifting one of my forefeet to my mouth : and therefore nature had placed those joints to answer that necessity . He knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind ...
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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