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Publisher
Dolby Digital
Pub. Date
c1939
Language
English
Description
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. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and tries to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally - miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands.
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Publisher
Book Jungle
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical...
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Series
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly "modern" protagonist, Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment, from its worship of science to its neglect of traditional philosophy and theology. In Swift's eighteenth century, as in our twenty-first, a war being fought between the "ancients"and the "moderns", between those rooted...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"When a shipwreck lands a lowly mailroom clerk named Gulliver (Black) on the fantastical island of Lilliput, he transforms into a giant--in size and ego! Gulliver's tall tales and heroic deeds win the hearts of the tiny Lilliputians, but when he loses it all and puts his newfound friends in peril, Gulliver must find a way to undo the damage. Through it all, Gulliver may just learn that it's how big you are on the inside that counts"--Container.
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When library page Jordan Young falls asleep in the children's section of T. Middleton Nightingale City Library, she misses the initial transformation of the library and wakes up to find herself in the land of Lilliput, where the tiny people are fighting over how to crack an egg and a friendly giant from Brobdingnag is looking for her giant mischievous monkey."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Swift's world-famous books from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. Half-orphaned, a Dubliner by birth, but a man who would always insist he was English, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was a figure of great contradictions. An essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric who became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Swift satirized the powerful but aspired to political...
Author
Series
Little Journeys volume 1. Series of 1895
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[c1895]
Language
English
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