Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift

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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

by Jonathan Swift

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A book I read in my sophomore year of college and it was just incredible! (

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Pure satire, very very morbidly satirical. One of the best books in English to come out of the 18th century. (

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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

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Lemuel Gulliver

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Lilliput

Blefuscu

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This LT work is the 1962 Bantam Books / Bantam Classics anthology of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and Other Writings, edited by Miriam Kosh Starkman. Please do not combine it with either editions containing Gulliver's Travels only, or with other anthologies unless substantially the same content is confirmed. Thank you.

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This volume helps readers situate one of the most popular adventure novels ever written, Gulliver's Travels, within the 18th-century process of inventing and resisting Great Britain. Ideas of nationalism--both Irish and British--are questioned and explored. Gulliver's Travels is interpreted as a critique of British colonial aggression, and has special appeal for courses in British literature and Irish studies. Supplemental materials include additional writings by Swift, such as pamphlets (including the famous "A Modest Proposal"), sermons, poems, and letters. A wealth of critical essays adds further context.

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