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....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Three is the third instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Three features 10 essential works that reach further back into early Greek and Italian stories from Dante, Machiavelli, and Homer...

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

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

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

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.

Ce roman fut écrit par Swift après le krach de 1720. Il avait acheté des actions de la Compagnie des mers du Sud pour 1000 livres...

What starts with young Jim Hawkins meeting a beggar and ends in a climactic battle between him and one of the most infamous villains in literature — Long John Silver — has long been revered as the ultimate pirate adventure story....

Swift nos embarca en las asombrosas aventuras de Lemuel Gulliver, un cirujano de barco convertido en explorador, cuyos viajes lo llevan a tierras desconocidas habitadas por seres extraordinarios.

This collection contains adventure novels from various authors, recognized masters who have become classics in this genre. None of the works included in...

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

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

In der faszinierenden Welt der Abenteuerliteratur entfalten sich Geschichten voller Entdeckergeist und Sehnsucht nach Freiheit, jede Erzählung nimmt die Hörer:innen mit auf eine packende Reise.

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....

Après un naufrage, le chirurgien Gulliver débarque sur l'île de Lilliput. Et là, Ô surprise !! Les habitants ne mesurent que 15 cm...

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....

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...

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.....

This curated collection brings together five iconic works from some of Ireland's greatest writers, each offering a distinct voice and vision that helped shape modern Irish literature.

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...