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Los viajes de Gulliver es una sátira en prosa, y la obra más conocida del escritor irlandés Jonathan Swift. La novela se nos presenta como la narración inconfiable de Lemuel Gulliver, un cirujano y capitán marino que ha viajado por todo el mundo, encontrándose con aventuras fantásticas e increíbles.
Primero, las naves de Gulliver naufragan en la isla de los Liliputs, donde los habitantes miden sólo 15 centímetros de altura. Sus otros viajes...
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Préparez-vous à vous envoler vers des terres étranges et fantastiques avec "Les Voyages de Gulliver" de Jonathan Swift. Ce livre intemporel vous transporte dans un monde rempli d'aventures incroyables et de rencontres surprenantes. Suivez les péripéties de Lemuel Gulliver, un médecin et marin intrépide, alors qu'il voyage à travers des contrées lointaines et exotiques. Découvrez Lilliput, o il se retrouve géant parmi les minuscules habitants....
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Brought together here in this volume is a classic collection of satirical works from Jonathan Swift, perhaps one of the greatest satirist in the English language. While Swift is probably best known for his novel "Gulliver's Travels", he was a brilliant satirist with a cutting wit and mastery of language. His skills with the pen, which made him both famous and feared by the powerful, can be seen in "A Modest Proposal". Swift's famous essay, originally...
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Matkailija Lemuel Gulliverin alus haaksirikkoutuu salaperäiselle Lilliputin saarelle. Hän on onnettomuuden ainoa selviytyjä. Saaren asukkaat löytävät Gulliverin ja sitovat hänet maahan. Asukkaat pistävät heti silmään - he ovat vain 15 senttimetriä pitkiä!
Gulliver viedään lilliputtien pääkaupunkiin, jonka outoja tapoja ja perinteitä hän seuraa kiinnostuneena. Häntä pyydetään muun muassa auttamaan Lilliputin saaren puolustuksessa...
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De fantasierijke roman van de Ierse schrijver Jonathan Swift over de avontuurlijke reizen van scheepsarts Lemuel Gulliver naar de verste delen van de wereld is al zo'n 300 jaar een klassieker en een groots werk in de Engelstalige literatuur.
Eerst bezoekt Gulliver's schip het eiland van de kleine kuil, waar de bewoners slechts 15 centimeter hoog zijn. De hoogte komt overeen met het niveau van de politieke discussies van deze mensen. Zijn tweede reis...
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Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of sailing across the seas, but he never imagined the places his travels would take him. His adventures could be the greatest tales ever told, if he survives long enough to tell them. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words and dynamic new covers....
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Gulliver, der einzige Überlebende eines Schiffsunglücks, erwacht am Strand einer Insel. Verwundert darüber, sich nicht bewegen zu können, entdeckt er zwergenhafte Menschen, die ihm winzige, aber wirkungsvolle Fesseln angelegt haben. Durch seine immense Größe wird Gulliver bald zum Segen für das Kaiserreich der Winzlinge, doch eine Reihe von Intrigen führen ihn zwischen die Fronten ... "Reise nach Lilliput" ist der erste Teil aus Jonathan Swifts...
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Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer,...
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"Una modesta proposición" es un ensayo satírico escrito por el autor irlandés Jonathan Swift. En este texto, Swift aborda la pobreza extrema en Irlanda durante el siglo XVIII de una manera provocativa y satírica, proponiendo una solución supuestamente lógica y pragmática para el problema.
La propuesta central de Swift es que, dado que la pobreza en Irlanda es un problema tan arraigado y aparentemente insoluble, se podría resolver de manera...
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Published anonymously in 1729, Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, A Modest Proposal, puts forth the darkly comical idea that the starving poor of Ireland might alleviate their economic condition by selling their children as food for wealthy gentlemen and ladies.
At its core, Swift's Modest Proposal satirizes English exploitation of Ireland in particular and the heartless attitude that rich elites can develop towards the poor in general. Along with...
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This vintage book contains Jonathan Swift's 1704 satire, "A Tale of a Tub". The first major work that he wrote, it is a prose parody about two brothers who are each representative of the chief aspects of western Christianity. It mainly deals with the ideas of religious enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. Published at a time when religion was an intrinsic aspect of politics, the work was widely condemned, with Queen Anne going as far as to call it "profane"....
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"Gulliver's Travels" is author Jonathan Swift's masterpiece, a epic satire of politics, the human condition and the popular "travel books" that were in vogue at the time.
The book concerns the travels and adventures of its eponymous hero, Lemuel Gulliver, as he circumnavigates the globe and encounters numerous fascinating and fantastical lands and the people - and creatures - who live there. From Lilliput (small people) to Brobdingnag (giants)...
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Jonathan Swift (* 30. November 1667 in Dublin, Königreich Irland; † 19. Oktober 1745 ebenda) war ein irischer Schriftsteller und Satiriker der frühen Aufklärung. Von den frühen schriftstellerischen Versuchen Swifts ist wenig erhalten. Erst nach seiner Rückkehr nach Irland finden sich Schriften, die ihn als den bis heute bekannten Satiriker kennzeichnen. Sein Roman The travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver (dt....
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First published in 1729, Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" remains one of the most brilliant, provocative works of satire in the English language. Swift crafts a precise and unsettling essay that interrogates the social and economic realities of eighteenth-century Ireland. Posing as a concerned economist, he offers a chillingly logical solution to the plight of the nation's impoverished children-one that shocks the conscience and exposes the callousness...
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Swift also wrote short works, the most famous of these is A Modest Proposal. This book also include 'The Battle of the Books', 'A Meditation upon a Broomstick', 'A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit', and 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England'.
'A Modest Proposal' puts forth the darkly comical idea that the starving poor of Ireland might alleviate their economic condition by selling their children as food...
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Qu'est-ce qu'un balai ? Un bâton sans gloire ; un arbre renversé ; un serviteur condamné à la servitude ? Et s'il n'était rien de tout cela, un simple être vivant coiffé d'une ridicule perruque - un humain ?
Après un séjour chez lord Berkeley, un lecteur assidu de Robert Boyle, Jonathan Swift, qui trouvait ses méditations pareils à des plaisanteries sans humour, voulut lui-aussi fournir sa version des méditations : il l'a glissa dans une...
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"A Modest Proposal" is author Jonathan Swift's infamous and shocking satirical essay in which he suggests that the plight of the poor in Ireland could be eased if they simply agreed to sell their children to the elites of society to be used as food.
Swift, disgusted by the apparent disdain and apathy exhibited by the ruling classes over the sufferings of the poor in Ireland used this essay to lampoon and attack the Protestant leaders, whose anti-Catholic...
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Gulliver - personagem de fábula que salta da imaginação e da pena do seu inventor Jonathan Swift - conta-nos minuciosamente as espantosas aventuras que lhe vão acontecendo quando, através de um mundo como que mitológico, ele vai encontrando e conhecendo os habitantes e a maneira de viver dos países-miniatura de Lilipute e Blefuscu, do domínio dos Brobdingrag ou dos gigantes, da ilha suspensa e giratória de Lapúcia, da Academia dos Balnibarbos,...
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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...





