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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings | Jonathan Swift
Considered one of English literature’s first and greatest satirists, Jonathan Swift possessed a timeless genius for pointing out the foibles of human nature that still has the power to provoke, amuse, and, at times, even outrage our modern sensibilities. This representative collection of Swift’s major writings includes the complete Gulliver’s Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub, “The Battle of the Books,” “A Modest Proposal,” “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity,” “The Bickerstaff Papers,” and many more of his brilliantly satirical works. Here too are selections from Swift’s poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella. Swift’s savage ridicule, corrosive wit, and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection.From the Paperback edition.
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Satire still hits targets

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Plus ça change ...
And yes, I'm looking at you Mrs May and Mr Trump

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ontheBL
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Common misconception is this is a children's book. It's not. It's an incredibly detailed and well-thought out satire pointing at the British during the reconstruction Era. It's one of my favorites.

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Our book club is reading a satirical novel in the coming year, I'm looking for suggestions.

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GoneFishing

But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

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Detail from a map in my lovely little 1938 Ronald Press edition of Gulliver's Travels. #mapsinbooks

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