Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
(Gulliver's Travels.) A Voyage to Lilliput by Lemuel Gulliver [i.e. Jonathan Swift]. With a Sketch of the Life of Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN: 9781603037228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN: 9781603037228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781582791814
Category : Satire
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781582791814
Category : Satire
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Travels
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816494
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816494
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.
Swift's Angers
Author: Claude Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107034779
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107034779
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.
Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput
Author: Gulliver (Captain.)
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Category : Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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A voyage to Brobdingnag
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590481998
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
According to legend, when the author and Historical Long Rider Jonathan Swift made an equestrian journey across Ireland, he arrived at a remarkable conclusion. The beloved mare who carried him faithfully was a paragon of reason, understanding and sympathy, unlike his fellow human beings. At the conclusion of the ride, Swift penned his famous book, Gulliver's Travels. It told the tale of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's captain who sailed to four remarkable kingdoms. While the simple children's version focuses on the little people of Lilliput, it was the talking horses found in the fourth adventure which outraged civilised English society. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms recounts how Captain Gulliver's crew mutinied and set him ashore on an unknown island. There he encountered a race of savage humanoids who threatened to kill him. The bewildered traveller was rescued by horses, who it turns out could speak and in fact ruled the island. What follows is an astonishing tale that turns man's definition of himself on its head. The naked, warlike and murderous humans are known as Yahoos, a term still used today as a synonym for "ruffian." In order to draw attention to the evils of materialism and elitism, Swift described the Yahoos as savage creatures with selfish habits, who are obsessed with digging pretty stones from the mud. In stark contrast the Houyhnhnms, which in their language means "the perfection of nature," are a race of intelligent horses that enjoy a peaceful society based upon reason. Though he is biologically akin to the Yahoos, Gulliver prefers the company of his benevolent equine hosts. When he learns to converse with the horses, Gulliver attempts to explain human society. His equine hosts are perplexed with the alien concepts of greed, war and injustice. Nor do they have a word for 'lie, ' and must substitute the phrase "to say a thing which is not." When Gulliver reluctantly returns to England, he finds the company of his countrymen, whom he now views as Yahoos, so intolerable that he spends most of his time in the stable near his home. Thus, this equine episode is the keystone of Gulliver's Travels and reflects Swift's disenchantment with popular society. Originally it was believed that A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms was a metaphor used by Swift to highlight England's treatment of slaves as lesser human beings. More recently, it has been described as an early example of animal rights, in that Gulliver's role reversal highlighted how cruelly English horses were treated. First released anonymously in 1726, it sold out in less than a week. Since then, the challenging tale has never been out of print. Nor has there arrived a human who has answered the challenge Swift wrote for his own epitaph. "Go forth, Voyager, and copy, if you can, this vigorous champion of Liberty."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590481998
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
According to legend, when the author and Historical Long Rider Jonathan Swift made an equestrian journey across Ireland, he arrived at a remarkable conclusion. The beloved mare who carried him faithfully was a paragon of reason, understanding and sympathy, unlike his fellow human beings. At the conclusion of the ride, Swift penned his famous book, Gulliver's Travels. It told the tale of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's captain who sailed to four remarkable kingdoms. While the simple children's version focuses on the little people of Lilliput, it was the talking horses found in the fourth adventure which outraged civilised English society. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms recounts how Captain Gulliver's crew mutinied and set him ashore on an unknown island. There he encountered a race of savage humanoids who threatened to kill him. The bewildered traveller was rescued by horses, who it turns out could speak and in fact ruled the island. What follows is an astonishing tale that turns man's definition of himself on its head. The naked, warlike and murderous humans are known as Yahoos, a term still used today as a synonym for "ruffian." In order to draw attention to the evils of materialism and elitism, Swift described the Yahoos as savage creatures with selfish habits, who are obsessed with digging pretty stones from the mud. In stark contrast the Houyhnhnms, which in their language means "the perfection of nature," are a race of intelligent horses that enjoy a peaceful society based upon reason. Though he is biologically akin to the Yahoos, Gulliver prefers the company of his benevolent equine hosts. When he learns to converse with the horses, Gulliver attempts to explain human society. His equine hosts are perplexed with the alien concepts of greed, war and injustice. Nor do they have a word for 'lie, ' and must substitute the phrase "to say a thing which is not." When Gulliver reluctantly returns to England, he finds the company of his countrymen, whom he now views as Yahoos, so intolerable that he spends most of his time in the stable near his home. Thus, this equine episode is the keystone of Gulliver's Travels and reflects Swift's disenchantment with popular society. Originally it was believed that A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms was a metaphor used by Swift to highlight England's treatment of slaves as lesser human beings. More recently, it has been described as an early example of animal rights, in that Gulliver's role reversal highlighted how cruelly English horses were treated. First released anonymously in 1726, it sold out in less than a week. Since then, the challenging tale has never been out of print. Nor has there arrived a human who has answered the challenge Swift wrote for his own epitaph. "Go forth, Voyager, and copy, if you can, this vigorous champion of Liberty."
Travels into several remote nations of the world; by Lemuel Gulliver, etc. [By Jonathan Swift.]
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Gulliver's Travels
Author: Lewis Helfand
Publisher: Campfire
ISBN: 9788190782975
Category : YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This graphic novel takes you on the legendary journeys of Lemuel Gulliver - the story that has survived centuries and is still loved.
Publisher: Campfire
ISBN: 9788190782975
Category : YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This graphic novel takes you on the legendary journeys of Lemuel Gulliver - the story that has survived centuries and is still loved.