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This edition of Jonathan Swift's classic is based on the 1726 text and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. The text also presents: materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, documents that suggest its initial reception...

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"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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 '...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in f...

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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. ...

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'... 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...

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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 ...

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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...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and w...

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Gullivers resor (engelska: Gulliver's Travels ), är en roman skriven av Jonathan Swift år 1726. Gullivers resor, handlar om Lemuel Gulliver, en läkarstuderande i Cambridge, som i sin färd mot Ostindien lider skeppsbrott på mycket speciella ställen...

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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.

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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 land...

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'... 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...

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Gulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skilful blend o...

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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...

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»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...

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Gulliver"s Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers" tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely consi...

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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 ...

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Diese illustrierte Sammlung ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfaltig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt:Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers (Mark Twain)Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)Die Reise zum Mi...

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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 ...

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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.'...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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By "the finest satirist in the English language" (New York Times), Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, is the extraordinary tale of Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four strange and surreal lan...

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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 soci...

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