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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: ERIS Gems Ser.
"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust."Jonathan Swift's 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment of Ir ...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
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Swift's exuberant, bawdy fable is a unique satire on politics, religion, fashion, madness and on writing itself - one which can be seen as anticipating the postmodern age with its witty digressions and dissection of the art of fiction.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Children's & YA | 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 by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Children's & YA
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: Art and Design
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. Swif ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to ...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 (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
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Category: Fiction | 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: Display & Gift | 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: Children's & YA | 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
Modest Proposal : Little Black Classic by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'...a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...' Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world ...Show more
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