Jonathan Swift

Travelers visit many strange places. They see very many wonderful things. When they return home they tell wonderful stories about what they have seen....

Andrew Sachs reads Jonathan Swift's humorous and unforgettable tale of a strange man in some very strange lands....

Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels....

The Irish are known the world over as friendly and engaging talkers with a word here and a few words there to each and every soul they meet. Their poets dazzle with talent and verse that few other nations dare compete with. What follows demonstrates why.

A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

Swift's allegorical satire about religion and politics follows the lives of three brothers, Martin, Peter, and Jack, each of who represents a faction of the Christian faith....

Mit Sachlichkeit und Raffinesse, galant und charmant, logisch und leidenschaftlich schildert der brillante Wort-Profi Swift anhand...

Dive into Jonathan Swift’s sharp satire in A Modest Proposal, one of literature’s most famous works of dark humor and social criticism. Written in 1729, Swift offers a shocking "solution" to the poverty and famine affecting Ireland, proposing the unthinkable with a calm, calculated rationale...

The 18th Century Classics Collection steps into the vibrant and tumultuous world of 18th century Europe. With this captivating anthology of some of the most influential works of 1700s literature, we encounter biting satire, passionate romance, and political tumultuousness.

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre....

Set and written in 1726, this is a marvelously imaginative tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver....

Lemuel Gulliver travels on four distinct journeys to exotic, strange locations....

Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in his biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of starving children and poverty in one blow. When...

Here, in this unusual collection, are some of the greatest essays in Western literature. Witty, informative and imaginative....

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...

The streets of eighteenth-century Dublin were rife with an appalling level of poverty. Desperate mothers regularly begged for alms to feed their children, and although passersby might have occasionally contributed a few coins, no large-scale remedy had proved remotely practical or effective. But...

Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of sailing across the seas, but he never imagined the places his travels would take him.

Gulliver landete nach einem Schiffsunglück auf einer einsamen Insel. Doch als er erwachte, merkte er, dass er nicht allein sein konnte: Über und über war er...

Der Protagonist, der Schiffsarzt und spätere Kapitän Lemuel Gulliver, schildert sein Erlebnis: Er macht auf der Insel Lilliput die Bekanntschaft...

Als Gulliver wieder in England weilt, bittet ihn ein Besucher, mit ihm an Bord seines Schiffes zu reisen. Gulliver ist einverstanden. Doch das Schiff...