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 148
... thought they were the most little contemptible creatures I had ever beheld . For , indeed , while I was in that prince's country , I could never endure to look in a glass after my eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects ...
... thought they were the most little contemptible creatures I had ever beheld . For , indeed , while I was in that prince's country , I could never endure to look in a glass after my eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects ...
Page 284
... thought was too par- ticular ; and therefore they were forced to change it to the number Three , from whence some have endeavoured to squeeze out a dangerous meaning , that was never thought on . And , indeed , the conceit was half ...
... thought was too par- ticular ; and therefore they were forced to change it to the number Three , from whence some have endeavoured to squeeze out a dangerous meaning , that was never thought on . And , indeed , the conceit was half ...
Page 454
... thought and action . Upon the whole , if it shall still be thought for the benefit of Church and State , that Christianity be abolished , I conceive however , it may be more convenient to defer the execution to a time of peace , and not ...
... thought and action . Upon the whole , if it shall still be thought for the benefit of Church and State , that Christianity be abolished , I conceive however , it may be more convenient to defer the execution to a time of peace , and not ...
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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