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Describes the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput, he is a giant among tiny people. In Brobdingnag, he is dwarfed by giants. The flying island of Laputa is a world of illusion and distorted values. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to a land of gentle horses where he also encounters filthy, bestial creatures resembling humans.
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A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies....
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From the author responsible for the satirical work of genius, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub is an allegorical work that follows three brothers after the event of their father's death. When their father, who meant to be God, dies, the three brothers, Peter, Martin and Jack, inherit his will and each receive a decorative coat. Their father also leaves them instruction not to alter these coats in any way because doing so would be...
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When the famed 18th century astrologer, John Partridge, publicly discredited the Christian church, Jonathan Swift developed an immense distaste for the man. Feeling insulted and malicious, Swift decided to celebrate his favorite holiday, All Fools Day, more commonly known as April Fools, while also appeasing his self-appointed feud with Partridge. Under the disguise of a pseudonym, Swift published The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers as a series of three...
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Extrait : "Mon père, don’t le bien, situé dans la province de Nottingham, était médiocre, avait cinq fils : j'étais le troisième, et il m'envoya au collège d'Emmanuel, à Cambridge, à l'âge de quatorze ans. J'y demeurai trois années, que j'employai utilement. Mais la dépense de mon entretien au collège était trop grande, on me mit en apprentissage sous M. Jacques Bates, fameux chirurgien à Londres, chez qui je demeurai quatre ans."...
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Gulliver, "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
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Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of Stella. It is, known that Stella is the name Swift gave to Esther Johnson. They met when she was only eight years old and knew each other for the entirety of the rest of their lives. Swift was first a mentor to young Esther. He taught her to read and write then introduced...