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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... person ; which , however , could not prevent some of the younger offi- cers from turning up their eyes as they passed under me . And , to confess the truth , my breeches were at that time in so ill a condition , that they afforded some ...
... person ; which , however , could not prevent some of the younger offi- cers from turning up their eyes as they passed under me . And , to confess the truth , my breeches were at that time in so ill a condition , that they afforded some ...
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... person of merit , unless by mistake or treachery of some minister in whom they confided : neither would they do it if they were to live again ; and they showed with great strength of reason , that the royal throne could not be supported ...
... person of merit , unless by mistake or treachery of some minister in whom they confided : neither would they do it if they were to live again ; and they showed with great strength of reason , that the royal throne could not be supported ...
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... person aimed at ; and , at the same time , he very kindly offered his own assistance gratis towards penning a dedication to himself . I desired him , however , to give a second guess ; why , then , said he , it must be I , or my Lord ...
... person aimed at ; and , at the same time , he very kindly offered his own assistance gratis towards penning a dedication to himself . I desired him , however , to give a second guess ; why , then , said he , it must be I , or my Lord ...
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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