Jonathan Swift - Böcker

Lemuel Gulliver, läkarstuderande i Cambridge, lider skeppsbrott på fyra mycket märkliga ställen på sin färd mot Ostindien. Han hamnar först i landet Lilliput, där allt är litet och människorna är små som teskedar. Till en början ses Gulliver som e...

Läs mer »

Under sina resor som skeppsläkare råkar Gulliver ut för det ena äventyret efter det andra. Efter stormar och olyckor på havet hamnar han först hos lilliputtarna och sedan i ett land med jättar. Hos de små lilliputtarna är Gulliver stor och konstig...

Läs mer »

Jonathan Swift [1667?1745] var en irländsk-brittisk författare och allmänt sedd som en av världslitteraturens största satiriker, och skrev dräpande pamfletter mot bland annat mot den brittiska Irlandspolitiken. Gullivers resor är en kritisk samtid...

Läs mer »

The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary. First he is shipwrecked in a strange land, and finds himself a prisoner of the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. Then he washes up in Brobdingnag, where the people are giants of extraor...

Läs mer »

'... 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 diversi...

Läs mer »

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. ...

Läs mer »

Under sina resor som skeppsläkare råkar Gulliver ut för det ena äventyret efter det andra. Efter stormar och olyckor på havet hamnar han först hos lilliputtarna och sedan i ett land med jättar. Hos de små lilliputtarna är Gulliver stor och konstig...

Läs mer »

"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 ...

Läs mer »

Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.

Läs mer »

HarperCollins is proud to present its new 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 ea...

Läs mer »

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr. Gulliv...

Läs mer »

The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mi...

Läs mer »

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.   Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge ran...

Läs mer »

Sagan om tunnan är, enligt litteratursajten The Millions , en av världslitteraturens tio svåraste böcker. Det kan tilläggas att den också är en av världslitteraturens mest obehagliga och provocerande böcker. Ändå - eller just därför? - blev den Jo...

Läs mer »

Gullivers rejser (originaltitel Gulliver's Travels ) er en roman skrevet af Jonathan Swift i 1726. Bogen er en kritisk allegori om samtiden. Den har en satirisk indfaldsvinkel til den menneskelige natur og er en parodi på den litterære undergenre ...

Läs mer »

The perfect gift for a curious mind. Share your beloved childhood stories with the next generation! When Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, sets off on the high seas in search of adventure, things never seem to go quite according to plan. Through ...

Läs mer »

Swift's scornful satire, written "e;to vex the world rather than divert it"e;, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg.'...

Läs mer »

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.'Sh...

Läs mer »

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible 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...

Läs mer »

The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant. To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical '...

Läs mer »

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...

Läs mer »

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity...

Läs mer »

The classic tale of shipwreck and adventure in strange lands, Gulliver's Travels is also a wickedly clever satire on the nature of humankind 'A masterwork of irony ... that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creati...

Läs mer »

The 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 savage ...

Läs mer »

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enri...

Läs mer »

With an essay by George Orwell.'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'A savage and hilarious satire, Gul...

Läs mer »

Brought to you by Penguin.A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by ...

Läs mer »

Brought to you by Penguin.A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by ...

Läs mer »

'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of t...

Läs mer »

'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of t...

Läs mer »