Jonathan Swift

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

"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)...

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...

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...

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,...