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Jonathan Swift's classic novel about the loveable Lemuel Gulliver is one that is taught in high schools around the country, and for good reason. Gulliver, who is a surgeon aboard a ship, thinks that he is about to embark on a run-of-the-mill voyage to different ports. Throughout his journey, however, there are a few events that take place that redirect his ship to unfamiliar islands. Not only are they unfamiliar to him, but they are inhabited by natives who are shaped and sized much differently than he is.

The full title of Swift's pamphlet is A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burtden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick."The tract is an ironically conceived attempt to "find out a fair, cheap, and easy Method" for converting the starving children of Ireland into "sound and useful members of the Commonwealth." Across the country poor children, predominantly Catholics, are living in squalor because their families are too poor to keep them fed and clothed.

"I Viaggi di Gulliver" (Gulliver's Travels) è un capolavoro della letteratura mondiale, un romanzo che coniuga fantasia e satira...

A trilha sonora da versão em áudio de Viagens de Gulliver acompanha os diferentes momentos da história. Na primeira parte, instrumentos delicados ajudam a criar a ambientação de Lilipute, país de seres minúsculos visitado por Gulliver. Depois, os timbres sonoros ganham corpo quando Gulliver visita Brobedinguenague, terra habitada por homens e mulheres que para ele são verdadeiros gigantes.

Gulliver, der einzige Überlebende eines Schiffsunglücks, erwacht am Strand einer Insel. Verwundert darüber, sich nicht bewegen zu können, entdeckt er zwergenhafte Menschen...

So macht er auf der Insel Liliput die Bekanntschaft der winzigen Einwohner, auf der Insel Brobdingnag aber ist er selbst ein Winzling, umgeben von Riesen. Doch auch Zauberer, schwebende Inseln und äußerst ungewöhnliche Pferde bleiben Gulliver auf seinen Abenteuern nicht verborgen...

Die vier großen Reisen des Gulliver in der Übersetzung und Textbearbeitung von Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt. Der englische Schiffsarzt Lemuel Gulliver sticht 1699 in See. Nach einem Schiffbruch strandet er auf der Insel Liliput, wo er von den Bewohnern Liliputs erst als Riese bestaunt und dann überlistet wird. Auf der nächsten Reise gerät sein Schiff in einen Sturm. Die Insel, auf die er sich rettet, wird von Riesen bewohnt und wieder gibt es viele Abenteuer zu bestehen.

Der Schiffsarzt Lemuel Gulliver schildert seine Erlebnisse auf vier Reisen Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts. Auf diesen Reisen machte er zunächst auf der Insel Liliput die Bekanntschaft der winzigen Einwohner, den Liliputanern. Diesen kann er unter anderem dadurch behilflich sein, dass er eine Feuersbrunst durch einfaches Pinkeln zum Erlöschen bringt.

Gulliver wird bei einem Schiffbruch an den Strand von Liliput gespült. Als er den kleinen Leuten bei einem Brand beisteht, wird er dafür hoch geehrt. Die Bewohner drängen ihn, für immer zu bleiben, doch Gulliver hat Heimweh. Er flieht in einem Boot und gerät in das Land der Riesen.

Gulliver sticht mit seiner Besatzung in Richtung Australien in See. Nachdem Festland in Sicht war, wurden Beiboote ausgesetzt um Wasser zu suchen. Plötzlich sind seine Leute in heller Aufregung und verlassen fluchtartig die Insel, da ihnen ein Riese auf der Spur war. Er wird am Ufer mit seinem Hund Frido zurückgelassen. Der Riese steckte Gulliver und Frido in seine Jackentasche und trug sie zu seinem Haus. Gulliver war im Königreich Monstrosia gelandet.

Gulliver träumte schon immer davon Schiffsarzt zu werden. Am 4. Mai 1699 sticht er mit dem Schiff Antilope in See und beginnt eine Reise in die Südsee. Nach einigen Monaten erleidet Gulliver Schiffbruch. Er rettet sich mit seinem Hund Fredo an den Strand von Liliput. Er sah eine winzige Stadt vor sich liegen, die wie ein Spielzeugparadies aussah.

Gulliver enjoys traveling, although it is this love of travel that is his downfall. His adventure sets off in Lilliput, when after a shipwreck, he wakes up, finding himself a prisoner of a race of people one twelfth the size of normal human beings. However, his adventure among the small people does not last long, when he has to escape the city as he is charged with treason.

Wickedly narrated by David Stifel, and written in 1729, this satiric essay on how to solve Ireland's chronic poverty is perhaps more shocking today than when it was written. In the 1960s, when Peter O'Toole did a public reading of this piece in Dublin, he very nearly started a riot. Newspapers the following day lambasted O'Toole's "shocking bad taste." Whether shocking satire, or Monty-Pythonesque surrealism, this essay has continually managed to offend people for well over 3 centuries. Enjoy! (and Thank You!)

It might seem an enlightening idea to take stock of good manners from the perspective of centuries past. Classic author Jonathan Swift deftly takes a look at manners and, through satire, finds a way to add humor to the subject of manners during his era. You will need to remember that this in order to find the nuggets of humor that may be found from the author of Gulliver's Travels. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic. The book itself, rather than the bowdlerized versions that have been derived from it, is a savage, rude and brilliant satire, timeless in its appeal and unerringly accurate.

This is an essay from the Favorite Essays collection.

Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series of travels, but each time he finds himself shipwrecked in new and unfamiliar lands. And how unfamiliar! In Lilliput, everyone is tiny, and it takes thousands of them to capture him; in Brobdingnag, they’re huge and treat him as a sort of living toy; in Laputa, they live on a floating island inventing impossibly mad projects; and the Houyhnhnms are horses! But through all his adventures, Gulliver learns to see humans in a different way, too.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food. By doing this he mocks the authority of the British officials.

In 1725, Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels, a book universally acknowledged as one of the most fantastic adventure stories and best satires on the human condition ever written.

One of the great literary classics of Western literature, Gulliver's Travels is a powerful satire on mankind, morals, and social habits, written in the form of a Travel in Wonderland.

The most celebrated novel by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is a culmination of his active years in politics with the Whigs and then the Tories.