Product Description: Set in a world where magical kingdoms exist, Gulliver's Travels tells the strange adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a young man who runs away to sea in search of the excitements that a life on land can't give. Faced with shipwrecks, natural disasters, and pirate attacks, Gulliver finds his way, each time, into a fantastical realm where every street holds an impossible reality and every day brings a new danger...read more

Product Description: "[...]Belfast, where he carried on a flirtation with a Miss Waring, whom he called Varina. But in May 1696 Temple made proposals which induced Swift to return to Moor Park, where he was employed in preparing Temple's memoirs and correspondence for publication, and in supporting the side taken by Temple in the Letters of Phalaris controversy by writing The Battle of the Books, which was, however, not published until 1704...read more

Product Description: A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. By Dr. Jonathan Swift 1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729...read more

Product Description: A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift. A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer first for the Whigs, then for the Tories, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub...read more

Product Description: A Modest Proposal - A Juvenalian Satirical Essay - Complete Edition - By Dr. Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729...read more

Product Description: De schrijver deelt het een en ander mede over zichzelf en zijn familie.—Zijn eerste aanleiding tot op reis gaan.—Hij lijdt schipbreuk en zwemt om zijn leven te redden.—Hij komt veilig aan land in het rijk Lilliput.—Wordt gevangen genomen en het land ingevoerd...read more

Product Description: Gullivers Reisen (engl.: Gulliver’s Travels) ist das bekannteste Werk des irischen Schriftstellers, anglikanischen Priesters und Politikers Jonathan Swift. In der Originalfassung besteht der satirische Roman aus vier Teilen und wurde 1726 unter dem Titel Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships veröffentlicht...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Swift was born in 1667, on the 30th of November. His father was a Jonathan Swift, sixth of the ten sons of the Rev. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, near Ross, in Herefordshire, who had married Elizabeth Dryden, niece to the poet Dryden’s grandfather...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Swift’s brilliant work of satire puts forth a simple solution for the crop failure and dearth of essential goods in 18th-century Ireland: the impoverished populace should sell their children as food to the wealthier classes...read more

Product Description: De schrijver deelt het een en ander mede over zichzelf en zijn familie.—Zijn eerste aanleiding tot op reis gaan.—Hij lijdt schipbreuk en zwemt om zijn leven te redden.—Hij komt veilig aan land in het rijk Lilliput.—Wordt gevangen genomen en het land ingevoerd...read more

Product Description: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel that recounts the history of Lemuel Guliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships". In his travels Gulliver visits the Land of Lilliput, where he towers over the local inhabitants, the land of Brobdingnag where he is much smaller than the citizens, the floating island of Laputa, infested with fanatical scientists who in their obsession with reason behave with no sense at all and finally to the land of the brutish Yahoos who look to all intents and purposes like humans and are derided by the intelligent horse people...read more

Product Description: Les Voyages de Gulliver de Jonathan Swift est un roman satirique et subtile et perspicace qui raconte l'histoire de Lemuel Guliver, "d'abord un chirurgien, puis un capitaine de plusieurs navires." Dans ses voyages de Gulliver visite le pays de Lilliput, où il domine les habitants de la région, la terre de Brobdingnag où il est beaucoup plus petite que les citoyens, l'île flottante de Laputa, infestés par les scientifiques fanatiques qui, dans leur obsession de la raison se comportent sans sens du tout et enfin à la terre des Yahoos brutales qui cherchent à toutes fins utiles comme les humains et sont raillés par les gens de chevaux intelligents...read more

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Product Description: Jonathan Swift: Gullivers Reisen Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2015, 3. Auflage Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: London (Benjamin Motte) 1726 (2 Bde)...read more

Product Description: Gulliver's Travels, published first in 1726 and again in 1735, is the most well-known work of Irish satirist Jonathan Swift. It is the story of Lemuel Gulliver, who captains a ship and sails the world, stopping in odd locations (such as Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and Glubbdubdrib) and getting into all sorts of trouble...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for theWhigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for theWhigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub...read more