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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise ...Show more
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics
A new selection of Swift's witty, acerbic and polemical proseThe political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of puns . . . This selection gathers together some of Swift's most brilliant prose, from high politics to social gossip, from sav ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Kid's Classics
Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift's best known work and a classic of English literature. The book satirizes human nature and Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it." The book follows Lemuel Gulliver and his fantastical travels to foreign lands where he encounters ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Ingpen Classics Ser.
A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered. A voyage in those days was not a pleasant thing, and a traveller was likely to encounter mysterious islands and strange people. Danger lurked around every cor ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Alma Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Kid's Classics
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Lug ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In this narrative of the gullible ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literat ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the Houyhnhnms horse ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Puffin Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics
In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary people and remarkable creatures. From a race of miniature folk to some surprisingly gentle giants and wise horses, Gulliver sees society from many different perspectives. Back in E ...Show more
The Battle of the Books (Alma Quirky Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, The Battle of the Books ...Show more
The Benefit of Farting Explained by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Humour | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful a posteriori fashion, that most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex ...Show more
The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders (Alma Quirky Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying by the seat of his pants, the great author treats us to a condensed biography of his posterior, enlivened by some inspired wordplay. Most famous for his celebrated masterpiece ...Show more
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