{"title":"Jonathan Swift","description":"Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin, Ireland. From 1689 to 1699, he worked as secretary to Sir William Temple in Moor Park, Surrey, England, returning for a short period to Ireland in 1694, where he was ordained an Anglican priest. It was during his stay in Moor Park that Swift discovered his talent for writing satire. From 1708 to 1714, much of his time was spent on ecclesiastic missions in London, where the brilliance of his political pamphleteering earned him the respect of the leading governmental figures of his day. For the remaining thirty-odd years of his life, he served as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. During this period he wrote Gulliver's Travels (published in 1726) and went on to become a national hero for defending Ireland against the inequities of the English Whigs.","products":[{"product_id":"gullivers-travels-paperback","title":"Gulliver's Travels - Mass Market Paperbound","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Swift\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLeo Damrosch\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Rich\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet sail on an incredible journey with Jonathan Swift's satiric masterpiece.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fantastical tale, \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. First, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches tall. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet tall. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky, and to a land where horses are endowed with reason and beasts are shaped like men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Read by children as an adventure story and by adults as a devastating satire of society, \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e remains a fascinating blend of travelogue, realism, symbolism, and fantastic voyage--all with a serious philosophical intent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Leo Damrosch\u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Nathanial Rich \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes thirty illustrations by Charles Brock and five maps of Gulliver's journeys. \u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGulliver set sail not knowing what fantastic adventures await him. First he is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput where the people are only six inches high! Then, he voyages to Brobdingnag, a land of towering giants. Will Gulliver ever make it back home?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Swift \u003c\/b\u003e(1667-1745) was born in Dublin, Ireland. From 1689 to 1699, he worked as secretary to Sir William Temple in Moor Park, Surrey, England, returning for a short period to Ireland in 1694, where he was ordained an Anglican priest. It was during his stay in Moor Park that Swift discovered his talent for writing satire. From 1708 to 1714, much of his time was spent on ecclesiastic missions in London, where the brilliance of his political pamphleteering earned him the respect of the leading governmental figures of his day. For the remaining thirty-odd years of his life, he served as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. During this period he wrote \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e (published in 1726) and went on to become a national hero for defending Ireland against the inequities of the English Whigs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLeo Damrosch\u003c\/b\u003e has taught at the universities of Virginia and Maryland and at Harvard University, where he is presently Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature. He has published books on such subjects as Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, William Blake, and the eighteenth-century novel, His biography \u003ci\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius\u003c\/i\u003e, was one of five finalists for the 2005 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and won the L. L. Winship\/PEN New England Award for best work of nonfiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Rich\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor's Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e. 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One of the unique books of world literature, Swift's masterful satire describes the astonishing voyages of one Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, to surreal kingdoms inhabited by miniature people and giants, quack philosophers and scientists, horses endowed with reason and men who behave like beasts. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels is a savage parody on man and his institutions that has captivated readers for nearly three centuries.\u003cbr\u003eThe Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-\u003cbr\u003eable hardbound editions of impor-\u003cbr\u003etant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-\u003cbr\u003efifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring\u003cbr\u003eas its emblem the running torch-\u003cbr\u003ebearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-\u003cbr\u003egurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. As bestselling author and critic Allan Bloom observed: \"Gulliver's Travels is an amazing rhetorical achievement. Swift had not only the judgment with which to arrive at a reasoned view of the world but the fancy by means of which he could re-create that world in a form which teaches where argument fails and which satisfies all while misleading none.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift (1667-1745), a poet, satirist, and clergyman, published many satirical works, among them \u003cb\u003eA Modest Proposal\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 7.68 x 5.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101593276639,"sku":"9780143119111","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pQfNiJrxvB9780143119111.webp?v=1782979135"},{"product_id":"gullivers-travels-paperback-2","title":"Gulliver's Travels - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Swift\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat classic by preeminent prose satirist of the English language, written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail. An enchanting fantasy for children; for adults, a witty parody of political life in Swift's time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegarded as the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) intended this masterpiece, as he once wrote Alexander Pope, to \"vex the world rather than divert it.\" Savagely ironic, it portrays man as foolish at best, and at worst, not much more than an ape.\u003cbr\u003eThe direct and unadorned narrative describes four remarkable journies of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them, one to the land of Lilliput, where six-inch-high inhabitants bicker over trivialities; and another to Brobdingnag, a land where giants reduce man to insignificance.\u003cbr\u003eWritten with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail, this classic is diverse in its appeal: for children, it remains an enchanting fantasy. For adults, it is a witty parody of political life in Swift's time and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Dublin, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) studied at Trinity College and was eventually ordained as a priest. 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In addition to \"A Modest Proposal,\" this Warbler Classics edition gathers an original selection of Swift's most celebrated satirical works: \"The Battle of the Books,\" \"The Episode of Bentley and Wotton,\" \"A Meditation Upon a Broomstick,\" \"Predictions for the Year 1708,\" \"An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity,\" \"A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit,\" and \"Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation.\" It also includes a detailed biographical timeline. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102869983455,"sku":"9781965684627","price":10.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PWmzKMhhCQ9781965684627.webp?v=1781845802"},{"product_id":"gullivers-travels-warbler-classics-annotated-edition-paperback","title":"Gulliver's Travels (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Swift\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift skewered society, commerce, politics, and war in his greatest work, \u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels. \u003c\/em\u003eThe four-part tale opens with a shipwreck on the island of Lilliput, whose inhabitants are just six inches tall. One fierce controversy concerns which end of an egg to crack open. In part two, Gulliver's ship ends up on Brobdingnag, an island of giants, where he is exhibited as a curiosity and partakes in cutting political tête-à-têtes with its king. In part three, Gulliver encounters Houyhnhnms, horses with the qualities of rational men. These he contrasts with the barbaric Yahoos, brutes in human shape. Finally, Gulliver returns from his travels with bitter insights into the nature of man and the barbarism that underlies so-called civilization. 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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. Swift's satire on the threats posed by the Enlightenment and the embryonic spirit of secular fundamentalism makes \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e priceless reading for today's defenders of tradition. This new critical edition, edited by Dutton Kearney of Aquinas College, contains detailed notes to the text and a selection of tradition-oriented essays by some of the finest contemporary Swift scholars. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ignatius Critical Editions\u003c\/i\u003e represent a tradition-oriented alternative to popular textbook series such as the \u003ci\u003eNorton Critical Editions\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eOxford World Classics\u003c\/i\u003e, and are designed to concentrate on traditional readings of the Classics of world literature. Whereas many modern critical editions have succumbed to the fads of modernism and post-modernism, this series will concentrate on tradition-oriented criticism of these great works. 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I have been using the \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e book in several courses with very fine results. I also used the \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e edition in two classes and the students seemed to find the essays very helpful. Thank you for this very necessary project of the Ignatius critical editions and for allowing me to make my small contribution to it.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Robert Carballo\u003c\/b\u003e, Millersville University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors to this volume: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRobert Dupree \u003cbr\u003eMitchell Kalpakgian \u003cbr\u003eDutton Kearney \u003cbr\u003eCarol Nevin (Sue) Abromaitis \u003cbr\u003eDouglas Lane Patey \u003cbr\u003ePeter J. 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