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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (with explanatory notes)
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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (with explanatory notes)Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (with explanatory notes)

A consumately skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.

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Gulliver's Travels
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Gulliver's TravelsGulliver's Travels

Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.

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Swift's Angers
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Swift's Angers

Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet Swift's angers are partly self-implicating, since his own temperament was close to the things he attacked, and behind his angers are deep self-divisions.
 
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Discovery School - Great Books - Gulliver's Travels (VIDEO)
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Discovery School - Great Books - Gulliver's Travels (VIDEO)Discovery School - Great Books - Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift's satirical masterwork, Gulliver's Travels, is much more than a children's classic. Seventeenth-century England was a country ripe with social ironies, and Swift plucked them all, placing them in a story alive with narrative drive. Discover the inner and outer worlds of Swift and how his prickly prose remains on target today

 Grade Level : 9 - 12

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Temeraire 01 - His Majesty's Dragon(2006)
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Temeraire 01 - His Majesty's Dragon(2006)Temeraire 01 - His Majesty's Dragon(2006)

As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe and his armada lies in wait for Nelson's smaller fleet, the war does not rage on land and water alone. Squadrons of aviators swarm the skies - a deadly shield for the cumbersome canon-firing vessels. Raining fire and acid upon their enemies, they engage in a swift, violent combat with flying tooth and claw... for these aviators ride dragons.
 
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