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Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Paulus Potter and Joseph Wright of Derby. A ship's surgeon washes up among people six inches high, then among giants, then on a floating island of theorists, and finally among horses who find humans disgusting. Swift published it anonymously through an intermediary because parts of it were actionable, and the publisher softened passages without asking. It was read as a children's book almost at once, which was not the plan. Ninety-nine plates after Gainsborough and Wright of Derby bring the century's portraits, experiments and drawing rooms into a book about looking closely at strange societies.
Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Paulus Potter and Joseph Wright of Derby. A ship's surgeon washes up among people six inches high, then among giants, then on a floating island of theorists, and finally among horses who find humans disgusting. Swift published ...
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric born in Dublin, and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral there for thirty-two years. He wrote pamphlets in defence of Irish interests against English policy. His works include A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and the Drapier's Letters.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric born in Dublin, and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral there for thirty-two years. He wrote pamphlets in defence of Irish interests against English policy. His works include A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and t...
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