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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise ...Show more
Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations. Written towards the end of his wr ...Show more
Earth, Climate, Dreams - Discussions with Depth Psychologists in the Age of the Anthropocene by Bonnie Bright (Interviewer, Interviewee, Editor); Michael Conforti (Interviewee); Robert Romanyshyn (Interviewee); Veronica Goodchild (Interviewee); Stephen Aizenstat (Interviewee); Susannah Benson (Interviewee); Sally Gillespie (Interviewee); Erel Shalit (Interviewee); Nancy Swift Furlotti (Interviewee); Jonathan Marshall (Editor, Interviewee); Jeffrey Kiehl (Interviewee); Susan Rowland (Interviewee); Jerome Bernstein (Interviewee)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Environment
This book contains dynamic perspectives on global challenges such as ecological destruction, climate issues, failed leadership, and limiting beliefs, while turning to imagination, dreams, symbol, metaphor, and mythology to help us gain a broader understanding of how we each fit into the fabric of the wh ...Show more
Gulliver\'s Travels by Jonathan Swift
$21.95 AUD
Category: Early Readers | Reading Level: From 9 to 99
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
$35.00 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Ingpen Classics Ser.
A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered. A voyage in those days was not a pleasant thing, and a traveller was likely to encounter mysterious islands and strange people. Danger lurked around every cor ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Collins Classics) by Jonathan Swift
$9.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Guliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships." In his travels Gulliver visits the Land of Lilliput, where he towers over the local inhabitants, the land of Brobdingnag where he ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins by Jonathan Swift
$12.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the Houyhnhnms horse ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Usborne Young Reading Series 2) by Jonathan Swift
$8.95 AUD
Category: Early Readers | Series: Usborne young readers | Reading Level: From 6 To 99
Discover what happens when ship-wrecked Lemuel Gulliver is kidnapped by the residents of a strange land called Lilliput. How will he escape his tiny tormentors and get back across the sea to his homeland? Worse still, who will believe his story? With a specially written text for children just learning t ...Show more
The Battle of the Books (Alma Quirky Classics) by Jonathan Swift
$14.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, The Battle of the Books ...Show more
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