Böcker av Jonathan Swift

"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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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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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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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...

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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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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...

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This enduring classic tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon who becomes a castaway in strange and faraway lands. Shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, he encounters the six-inch-high Lilliputians, whose pe...

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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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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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Gulliver's strange adventures in some of the most unusual lands ever imagined have made this one of the rare classics with an enduring and wide-ranging appeal to all ages. Gulliver's bad luck at sea not only gets him shipwrecked and castaway, but ...

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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...

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A set of 6 much-loved stories from classic English literature for children, brought together by Puffin Books in beautiful paperback cover designs. In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver m...

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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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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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Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift's unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite...

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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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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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What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful a posteriori fashion, that...

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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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Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, is Jonathan Swift's best known full-length work, and is both a parody of the "e;travellers' tales"e; popular at the time and a satire on human nature. Throughout the four stories, ship's surgeon...

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In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it 'A Modest Proposal" (1729) or 'A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children...

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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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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 ...

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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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'... 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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Mitt namn är Jonathan Swift. Jag föddes den 30 november 1667 i Dublin på Irland. Jag hoppas att du vill lyssna på den historia som jag nu ska berätta. Kanske kommer du att tro att den inte är sann men det är den. Jag minns varje detalj, varje ande...

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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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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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»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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