Swift Jonathan
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
"This discourse, as it is unquestionably of the same author, so it seems to have been written about the same time, with The Tale of a Tub; I mean the year 1697, when the famous dispute was on foot about ancient and modern learning. The controversy took its rise from an essay of Sir William Temple's upon that subject. At length, there appearing no end of the quarrel, our author tells us that the books in St. James's Library, looking
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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From the author responsible for the satirical work of genius, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub is an allegorical work that follows three brothers after the event of their father's death. When their father, who meant to be God, dies, the three brothers, Peter, Martin and Jack, inherit his will and each receive a decorative coat. Their father also leaves them instruction not to alter these coats in any way because doing so would be...
Author
Publisher
Mimética
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Portuguese
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Description
Gulliver — personagem de fábula que salta da imaginação e da pena do seu inventor Jonathan Swift — conta-nos minuciosamente as espantosas aventuras que lhe vão acontecendo quando, através de um mundo como que mitológico, ele vai encontrando e conhecendo os habitantes e a maneira de viver dos países-miniatura de Lilipute e Blefuscu, do domínio dos Brobdingrag ou dos gigantes, da ilha suspensa e giratória de Lapúcia, da Academia...
Author
Publisher
Mimética
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
A editora Mimética oferece aos seus leitores 30 obras-primas da literatura mundial num único volume: - Alighieri, Dante: "A Divina Comédia"
- Austen, Jane: "Persuasão"
- Balzac, Honoré de: "Ilusões Perdidas"
- Brontë, Anne: "Agnes Grey"
- Brontë, Charlotte: "Jane Eyre"
- Cervantes, Miguel de: "Dom Quixote"
- Cooper, James Fenimore: "O Último Moicano"
- Dickens, Charles: "David Copperfield"
- Dostoiévski, Fiódor: "Crime e Castigo"
- Dumas,...
