Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

Jonathan Swift

ISBN 10: 055321232X / ISBN 13: 9780553212327

Published by Random House USA Inc, US, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc, US
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 055321232X
• ISBN 13: 9780553212327
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 301 grams

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Synopsis

The voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants, in the classic satirical novel, accompanied by such writings as "The Battle of the Books," "A Modest Proposal," "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity," and other essays, poems, and satire. Reissue.

About the Author

Jonathan Swift was born in 1667, the son of Anglo-Irish parents. After an education in Ireland, Swift moved to England where he reluctantly chose a career in the church. There, he worked for Sir William Temple, in whose household he met Esther Johnson. The two fell in love, but were never publicly married. While in England, Swift discovered his talents as a satirist, producing texts such as "A Tale Of A Tub" and "The Battle of the Books" (1704). At age thirty-one, Swift returned to Ireland as chaplain to a lord justice. Swift maintained his energy and wit and, later in life, wrote "A Modest Proposal" (1729) and GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (1726). Swift died on October 19, 1745.