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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... honour that he was not poisoned , but died of a fever by excessive drinking.1 Next I saw Hannibal passing the Alps , who told me he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp.2 I saw Cæsar and Pompey at the head of their troops , just ready ...
... honour that he was not poisoned , but died of a fever by excessive drinking.1 Next I saw Hannibal passing the Alps , who told me he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp.2 I saw Cæsar and Pompey at the head of their troops , just ready ...
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... Honour , out of curiosity , and perhaps ( if I may speak it without vanity ) partly out of kindness , was determined to see me in my canoe , and got several of his neighbouring friends to accompany him . I was forced to wait above an ...
... Honour , out of curiosity , and perhaps ( if I may speak it without vanity ) partly out of kindness , was determined to see me in my canoe , and got several of his neighbouring friends to accompany him . I was forced to wait above an ...
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... Honour please to buy a set ? " Here's Woolston's 16 tracts , the twelfth edition ; ' Tis read by ev'ry politician : The country members , when in town , To all their boroughs send them down : You never met a thing so smart ; The ...
... Honour please to buy a set ? " Here's Woolston's 16 tracts , the twelfth edition ; ' Tis read by ev'ry politician : The country members , when in town , To all their boroughs send them down : You never met a thing so smart ; 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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