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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Fantasy

AUTHOR Swift, Jonathan
PUBLISHER Aegypan (06/01/2006)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

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Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery."

If you haven't read Swift's original, but have only happened on it through the infinite number of adaptations of this work, you need to read it now; it's a classic that may not be at all what you've come to thi

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ISBN-13: 9781598182569
ISBN-10: 1598182560
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 312
Carton Quantity: 22
Product Dimensions: 6.00 x 0.81 x 9.00 inches
Weight: 1.31 pound(s)
Country of Origin: US
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Fiction | Fantasy - General
Fiction | Literary
Fiction | Classics
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Reading Level: 0
Point Value: 0
Guided Reading Level: Not Applicable
Dewey Decimal: FIC
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Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery."

If you haven't read Swift's original, but have only happened on it through the infinite number of adaptations of this work, you need to read it now; it's a classic that may not be at all what you've come to thi

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Author: Swift, Jonathan
Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best known for his works Gulliver s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually became Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick s Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.
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