Originally titled 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World', Gulliver's Travels has been enjoyed as both a tale of adventure and celebrated satire. Lemuel Gulliver wakes from a shipwreck to find himself on the island of Lilliput - a strange land populated by tiny people. Over the next three[...]

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch 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, Lugg[...]

Swift's satire uses a literal epic battle between books to explore the debates of his time among authors, and between authors and critics Inspired by Boileau's "Lutrin "and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients," who argued that all essential knowledge wa[...]

Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably[...]

Jonathan Swift's masterpiece is the finest satire in the English language. Shipwrecked traveler Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed ashore in Lilliput, a kingdom populated by tiny people. Fascinated by their exotic visitor, the Lilliputians enlist Gulliver's services in their bitter civil war. But [...]

»Min far hade en liten egendom i Nottinghamshire, och jag var den tredje i raden av fem söner.«När den kvicke och satiriske domprosten Jonathan Swift (1667?1745) gav ut Gullivers resor (1726) kunde han knappast ana att detta verk skulle bli en av de största succéer som någonsin hade legat på[...]

Den klassiska berättelsen om skeppsläkaren Gulliver. I maj 1699 seglar han med skeppet Antilopen på Stilla havet. På väg mot Australien fångas skeppet av en våldsam storm som krossar det mot klipporna.

Gulliver lyckas utmattad ta sig i land på en strand. När han vaknar upp är ha[...]

Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of starving children and poverty in one blow. When the ?[...]

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Gulliver's Travels of the Ratna Sagar Classics Series is an enriched edition that any keen reader of literature will be pleased to have. This classic is divided into two books, each carrying[...]

Designed to lead the student through the process of studying, writing and achieving at Master's level, this title intends to demystify the process by tackling those issues students find difficult. It is based on practical guidance and takes a commonsense approach to studying and writing at this leve[...]