作者简介 Jonathan Swift(1667——1745)was an Anglo-Irish satirist,essayiSt,political pamphleteer(first for Whigs then for the Tories),poet and cleric who became Dean of St.Patrick’s,Dublin.He is remembered for works such as Glliver s Travels,A Modest Proposal,A yournal to Stella,Drapkr sLetters,The Battle ofthe Books,An Argument Against AbolishingChristianity,andA Tak ofa Tub.Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language,and is lesswell known for his poetry.
Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms-such as Lemuel Gulliver,Isaac Bickerstaff,M.B.Drapier—or anonymously He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire:the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
目录 THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER
PART ONE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
PART Two
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
PART THREE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
PART FOUR
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
内容摘要 The author gives some account of himself and family.His first inducements to travel He is shipwrecked, andswims for his life, gets safe on shore in the country ofLilliput, is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.Y FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire;I was the third of five sons. He sent me toEmanuel College in Cambridge at fourteenyears old, where I resided three years, and applied myselfclose to my studies; but the charge of maintaining mealthough I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for anarrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates,an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continuedfour years My father now and then sending me small sumsof money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and otherparts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend totravel, as I always believed it would be some time or othermy fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to myfather; where, by the assistan...
主编推荐 Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726; and, although it was by nomeans intended for them, the book was soon appropriated by thechildren, who have ever since continued to regard it as one of themost delightful of their story books. They cannot comprehend theoccasion which provoked the book nor appreciate the satire whichunderlies the narrative, but they delight in the wonderful adventures,and wander full of open-eyed astonishment into the new worldsthrough which the vivid and logically accurate imagination of theauthor so personally conducts them. And therer is ameaning and amoral in the stories of the Voyages to Lilliputand Brobdingnag which is entirely apart fromthe political satire they are intended to convey a meaning and a moral which the youngest childwho can read it will not fail to seize, and upon which it is scarcely necessary for the teacher to comment. Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novelby Jonathan Swift that is both a satire onhuman nature and a parody of the “travellers'tales” literary sub-genre. It is Swift's bestknown full-length work, and a classic ofEnglish literature, The book became tremendously popular assoon as it was published. (ohn Gay said in a1726 letter to Swift that “it is universally read,from the cabinet council to the nursery”); sincethen, it has never been out of print.
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