Jonathan Swift - Böcker

Nyöversättning I Gullivers resor redogör Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) för fyra av den engelske skeppsläkaren Lemuel Gullivers resor ut i världen, den ena märkligare än den andra. I landet Lilliput upptäcker Gulliver ett land i miniatyr, där en oxe ä...

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Förlist på ett stormigt hav spolas Lemuel Gulliver upp på stranden till ön Lilliput, befolkad av nyfikna miniatyrmänniskor som kallar sig lilliputtaner. Så småningom lyckas han ta sig därifrån, men hamnar då i stället hos jättarna i Brobdingnag oc...

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Under sina resor som skeppsläkare råkar Gulliver ut för det ena äventyret efter det andra. Efter stormar och olyckor på havet hamnar han först hos lilliputtarna och sedan i ett land med jättar. Hos de små lilliputtarna är Gulliver stor och konstig...

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"Min far hade en liten egendom i Nottinghamshire,och jag var den tredje i raden av fem söner." När den kvicke och satiriske domprosten Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) gav ut Gullivers resor (1726) kunde han knappast ana att detta verk skulle ...

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'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...' Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the hu...

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Mitt namn är Jonathan Swift. Jag föddes den 30 november 1667 i Dublin på Irland. Jag hoppas att du vill lyssna på den historia som jag nu ska berätta. Kanske kommer du att tro att den inte är sann men det är den. Jag minns varje detalj, varje ande...

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Jonathan Swift [1667-1745] var en irländsk-brittisk författare och allmänt sedd som en av världslitteraturens största satiriker, och skrev dräpande pamfletter mot bland annat mot den brittiska Irlandspolitiken. Gullivers resor är en kritisk samtid...

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Lemuel Gulliver, läkarstuderande i Cambridge, lider skeppsbrott på fyra mycket märkliga ställen på sin färd mot Ostindien. Han hamnar först i landet Lilliput, där allt är litet och människorna är små som teskedar. Till en början ses Gulliver som e...

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A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust. Jonathan Swifts 1729 pamph...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surfa...

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Following ship surgeon, Lemuel Gulliver, Jonathan Swift's satire, Gulliver's Travels, is a humorous critique of the darker aspects of human nature. During his voyage, Gulliver visits four islands, each more bizarre and fantastical that t...

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Gullivers resor (engelska: Gulliver's Travels ), är en roman skriven av Jonathan Swift år 1726. Gullivers resor, handlar om Lemuel Gulliver, en läkarstuderande i Cambridge, som i sin färd mot Ostindien lider skeppsbrott på mycket speciella ställen...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few r...

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Sagan om tunnan är, enligt litteratursajten The Millions , en av världslitteraturens tio svåraste böcker. Det kan tilläggas att den också är en av världslitteraturens mest obehagliga och provocerande böcker. Ändå - eller just därför? - blev den Jo...

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'Gulliver's Travels' is now best known as a tale to delight children. And indeed, Jonathan Swift's story of Lemuel Gulliver and his adventures among tiny people, great giants, flying islands and talking horses is the very stuff of fairy tales. It ...

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With an essay by George Orwell.'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'A savage and hilarious satire, Gul...

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A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr. Gulliv...

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A set of 6 much-loved stories from classic English literature for children, brought together by Puffin Books in beautiful paperback cover designs. In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver m...

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Swift's scornful satire, written "e;to vex the world rather than divert it"e;, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg.'...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of t...

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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'Sh...

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'Among the six indispensable books in world literature' George Orwell In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is s...

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The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant. To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical '...

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the des...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said...

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In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary people and remarkable creatures. From a race of miniature folk to some surprisingly gentle giants and wise horses, Gulliver...

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'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity...

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The classic tale of shipwreck and adventure in strange lands, Gulliver's Travels is also a wickedly clever satire on the nature of humankind 'A masterwork of irony ... that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creati...

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The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of puns . . . This selection gathers together some of Swift's most brilliant prose, from high politics to social gossip, from savage ...

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enri...

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