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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise ...Show more
DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS by SWIFT JONATHAN
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Category: Classic Fiction
Directions to Servants is one of Jonathan Swift's last completed works. It displays all his caustic skill as a satirist and his unerring eye for the little annoyances of life. Taking the form of a handbook of manners, and addressed to each servant individually, Directions to Servants is the ultimate ups ...Show more
Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations. Written towards the end of his wr ...Show more
GULLIVER S TRAVELS by JONATHAN SWIFT
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) wit ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Fiction | Series: Classic Collection
Lemuel Gulliver has always wanted to see the world, but when he's stranded on a strange island he meets the tiny people of Lilliput. Now his adventures can really begin! When Gulliver is shipwrecked, he finds himself stranded on an island of little people: Lilliput. As he begins to gain the Lilliputi ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Alma Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction
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 lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Lug ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Collins Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel 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 ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the Houyhnhnms horse ...Show more
The Battle of Books by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Ser.
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The Battle of the Books (Alma Quirky Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, The Battle of the Books ...Show more
The Benefit of Farting Explained by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
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 most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex ...Show more
The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders (Alma Quirky Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying by the seat of his pants, the great author treats us to a condensed biography of his posterior, enlivened by some inspired wordplay. Most famous for his celebrated masterpiece ...Show more
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