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 181
... turn , the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed . He then commanded six and thirty of the lads to read the several lines softly as they appeared upon the frame ; and where they found three or four words together that ...
... turn , the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed . He then commanded six and thirty of the lads to read the several lines softly as they appeared upon the frame ; and where they found three or four words together that ...
Page 337
... turn into any of the oriental languages , especially the Chinese . And so I proceed with great content of mind , upon reflecting , how much emolument this whole globe of Earth is like to reap by my labours . The first undertaking of ...
... turn into any of the oriental languages , especially the Chinese . And so I proceed with great content of mind , upon reflecting , how much emolument this whole globe of Earth is like to reap by my labours . The first undertaking of ...
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... turn the tax for public roads Commodious to their own abodes . " Perhaps I may allow , the Dean Had too much satire ... turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day , And friends would let him have his way . " He gave the ...
... turn the tax for public roads Commodious to their own abodes . " Perhaps I may allow , the Dean Had too much satire ... turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day , And friends would let him have his way . " He gave the ...
Contents
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT | 35 |
The Emperor of Lilliput attended by several | 45 |
The author diverts the Emperor and | 53 |
Copyright | |
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