Gulliver's travels

by Jonathan Swift

Overview

The book begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history before his voyages. He enjoys travelling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall. During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches tall, who are inhabitants of the island country of Lilliput. After giving assurances of his good behaviour, he is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favourite of the court. From there, the book follows Gulliver's observations on the Court of Lilliput. He is also given the permission to go around the city on a condition that he must not harm their subjects. Gulliver assists the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbours, the Blefuscudians, by stealing their fleet. However, he refuses to reduce the island nation of Blefuscu to a province of Lilliput, displeasing the King and the court. Gulliver is charged with treason for, among other crimes, "making water" (urination) in the capital, though he was putting out a fire and saving countless lives. He is convicted and sentenced to be blinded, but with the assistance of a kind friend, he escapes to Blefuscu. Here he spots and retrieves an abandoned boat and sails out to be rescued by a passing ship, which safely takes him back home. This book of the Travels is a typical political satire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835719021
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	07/05/2022
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	708 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Jonathan Swift


Detail of a portrait of Jonathan Swift directed by Charles Jervas (1718).

Other key data names MB Draper, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff
Activities priest, writer, pamphleteer
Born November 30, 1667
Dublin (Ireland)
Death October 19, 1745 (77 years)
Dublin (Ireland)
Writing language English

major works

Letters from the clothier, (1724)
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Modest Proposal (1729)
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Jonathan Swift, born November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, and died October 19, 1745 in the same city is a writer, satirist, essayist, pamphleteer Anglo-Irish politics. [1] He is also a poet and cleric, and as he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

He is famous for writing Gulliver's Travels. Swift is probably the greatest satirist in prose in the English language. He published his works by using pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff and MB Draper, or even anonymously. Finally, it is known to be a master of two styles of satire, satire and horacienne juvénalienne satire. He is a member of the Scriblerus Club.