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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
Dieses Buch (-) wurde leider alsbald, verstmmelt und verkrzt, zur Kinder- und Jugendlektre verniedlicht. Dabei handelt es sich bei diesem Buch um eine hochkartige Satire auf die Lebensgewohnheiten und politischen Gepflogenheiten der damaligen Zeit, der der Autor das fadenscheinige Mntelchen der exotischen Reisebeschreibung umhing. Es steht also Zeitloses, es steht Menschliches in diesem Buch, das uns alle angeht, heut wie damals. Hermann Hesse
Dieses Buch (-) wurde leider alsbald, verstmmelt und verkrzt, zur Kinder- und Jugendlektre verniedlicht. Dabei handelt es sich bei diesem Buch um eine...
Gulliver's Travels has been called many things: Menippean satire, children's story, proto-Science Fiction and even the forerunner of the modern novel. Published seven years after Daniel Defoe's wildly successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels may be read as a rebuttal of Defoes optimistic account of human capability. In The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned to refute the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe's novel seems to suggest. Swift regarded such thought as a dangerous endorsement...
Gulliver's Travels has been called many things: Menippean satire, children's story, proto-Science Fiction and even the forerunner of the modern novel....
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) is a brilliant work of imagination, a socio-political satire, and a perennial classic.
Of all the fantastic adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and world traveler, probably the best known one is his journey to Lilliput, the land of tiny people, where he is a giant. But here the reader can become acquainted with the rest of his equally remarkable journeys, including Brobdingnag, the land of giants, Laputa, the island in the air, the country of Houyhnhnms, the horse people, and, of course, the proverbial Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) is a brilliant work of imagination, a socio-political satire, and a perennial classic.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) is a brilliant work of imagination, a socio-political satire, and a perennial classic.
Of all the fantastic adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and world traveler, probably the best known one is his journey to Lilliput, the land of tiny people, where he is a giant. But here the reader can become acquainted with the rest of his equally remarkable journeys, including Brobdingnag, the land of giants, Laputa, the island in the air, the country of Houyhnhnms, the horse people, and, of course, the proverbial Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) is a brilliant work of imagination, a socio-political satire, and a perennial classic.