Jonathan Swift: 328 books

La “commedia umana” di Swift procede in senso inverso alla Divina Commedia di Alighieri. Il capolavoro dantesco s’inizia col tetro abisso dell’Inferno e progressivamente se ne allontana […] Il capolavoro di Swift s’inizia con l’allegretto dei lillipuziani, e via via si fa più fosco...

Test? Paper? Class discussion? Don't worry, we have you covered. This book has everything you need. Not only does it feature the complete text of Gulliver's Travels, it offers a comprehensive study guide that will easily help you understand Swift's classic novel. You'll make the grade with: • Complete...

Swift also wrote short works, the most famous of these is A Modest Proposal. This book also include 'The Battle of the Books', 'A Meditation upon a Broomstick', 'A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit', and 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England'. 'A Modest...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: First published in 1887. According to the Introduction: "The shifting combinations of party, from the settlement of the constitution at the Revolution to a later period, is an attractive study to any...

Le pitch : Gulliver, médecin maritime, traverse les océans et les mésaventures. Ses rencontres incroyables l'amènent à comparer la vie et les caractères des peuples qu'il côtoie avec ceux qu'il connaît en Europe; plus particulièrement les us et coutumes qui existent en Grande Bretagne. Cette...

La “commedia umana” di Swift procede in senso inverso alla Divina Commedia. Il capolavoro dantesco s’inizia col tetro abisso dell’Inferno e progressivamente se ne allontana […] Il capolavoro di Swift s’inizia con l’allegretto dei lillipuziani, e via via si fa più fosco attraverso le...

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...

Written in the early 18th century, Gullivers Travels was acclaimed clergyman and writer Jonathan Swifts attempt to both satirize humanity while also parodying previously popular travel stories such as Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe. Gullivers Travels became popular in the same way as the epic travel stories...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds...

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A Tale of a Tub" is a well known allegorical work and a crystal clear affirmation of Swift's misanthropy with striking religious satire on all human races. It has stirring stylistic impact on its reader due its astuteness of language. Stimulating and thought-provoking!

This file includes: The True History by Lucian, Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Droll Stories by Balzac, Burlesques by Thackeray, A Burlesque Autobiography by Twain, Condensed Novels by Harte, New Burlesques by Harte, Letters to Dead Authors by Lang, Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen...

In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man....