The Collected Works of Jonathan Swift E-Book

Jonathan Swift

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• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 8210 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Gulliver's Travels • A Modest Proposal • Gulliver's Travels • The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces • A Tale of a Tub • Gulliver's Travels • The Journal to Stella • A Modest Proposal • The Prose Works of • The Poems of • The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers • Three Sermons: I. On mutual subjection. II. On conscience. III. On the Trinity • The Battle of the Books • A Modest Proposal • Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift and J. Bowles Daly • The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers • The Journal to Stella • A Tale of a Tub • A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, IN IRELAND, UPON THE CHOOSING A NEW SPEAKER THERE • A PROPOSAL FOR THE UNIVERSAL USE OF IRISH MANUFACTURE • AN ESSAY ON ENGLISH BUBBLES. BY THOMAS HOPE, ESQ. • THE SWEARER'S BANK • A LETTER TO THE KING AT ARMS • THE LAST SPEECH AND DYING WORDS OF EBENEZER ELLISTON • THE TRUTH OF SOME MAXIMS IN STATE AND GOVERNMENT, EXAMINED WITH REFERENCE TO IRELAND • THE BLUNDERS, DEFICIENCIES, DISTRESSES, AND MISFORTUNES OF QUILCA • A SHORT VIEW OF THE STATE OF IRELAND • THE STORY OF THE INJURED LADY. WRITTEN BY HERSELF • THE ANSWER TO THE INJURED LADY .etc.

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A MODEST PROPOSAL

For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELSinto several REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.

A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON.

PART I. A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

PART II. A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

PART III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

INTO SEVERAL REMOTE REGIONS OF THE WORLD

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY THOMAS M. BALLIET

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

PART I

A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT

PART II

A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG

D.C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

1900

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

NOTE.

THE FIRST PUBLISHER TO THE READER.

TRAVELS.

PART I.

A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.

CHAPTER I.

"I LAY ALL THIS WHILE IN GREAT UNEASINESS"

"PRODUCING HIS CREDENTIALS."

CHAPTER II.

"THESE GENTLEMEN MADE AN EXACT INVENTORY OF EVERYTHING THEY SAW."

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY WAS PLEASED TO SMILE VERY GRACIOUSLY UPON ME.

CHAPTER V.

"AND CREATED ME A NARDAC UPON THE SPOT."

CHAPTER VI.

"THREE HUNDRED TAILORS WERE EMPLOYED TO MAKE ME CLOTHES"

"THE HAPPINESS ... OF DINING WITH ME."

CHAPTER VII.

"HE DESIRED I WOULD HEAR HIM WITH PATIENCE."

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN-MOUNTAIN.

CHAPTER VIII.

I SET SAIL AT SIX IN THE MORNING

THE END OF THE FIRST PART.

"THEY CONCLUDED ... THAT I WAS ONLY Relplum Scalcath.

TRAVELS.

PART II.

A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG.

CHAPTER I.

"A HUGE CREATURE WALKING ... IN THE SEA."

"WHEREUPON THE HUGE CREATURE TROD SHORT."

"I ... DREW MY HANGER TO DEFEND MYSELF."

CHAPTER II.

"I CALLED HER MY GLUMDALCLITCH."

"FLOURISHED AFTER THE MANNER OF FENCERS IN ENGLAND."

CHAPTER III.

"THIS GRACIOUS PRINCESS HELD OUT HER LITTLE FINGER."

"SHE ... CARRIED ME TO THE KING."

"I COULD ONLY REVENGE MYSELF BY CALLING HIM BROTHER."

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

"THE SMALLER BIRDS DID NOT APPEAR TO BE AT ALL AFRAID OF ME."

"GAVE ME A GALE WITH THEIR FANS."

CHAPTER VI.

"THE MOST VIOLENT EXERCISE I EVER UNDERWENT."

"YOU HAVE MADE A MOST ADMIRABLE PANEGYRIC."

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

"SHE HAD SOME FOREBODING."

"SOMEBODY CALLING ... IN THE ENGLISH TONGUE."

"MY DAUGHTER KNEELED BUT I COULD NOT SEE HER."

NOTE.

FOOTNOTES:

THE JOURNAL TO STELLA

With preface, introduction and notes by George A. Aitken.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION.

JOURNAL TO STELLA

LETTER 1.(1)

CHESTER, Sept. 2, 1710.

LETTER 2.

LONDON, Sept. 9, 1710.

LETTER 3.

LONDON, Sept. 9, 1710.

LETTER 4.

LONDON, Sept. 21, 1710.

LETTER 5.

LONDON, Sept. 30, 1710.

LETTER 6.

LONDON, Oct. 10, 1710.

LETTER 7.

LONDON, Oct. 19, 1710.

LETTER 8.

LONDON, Oct. 31, 1710.

LETTER 9.

LONDON, Nov. 11, 1710.

LETTER 10.

LONDON, Nov. 25, 1710.

LETTER 11.

LONDON, Dec. 9, 1710.

LETTER 12.

LONDON, Dec. 23, 1710.

LETTER 13.

LONDON, Jan. 4, 1710-11.

LETTER 14.

LONDON, Jan. 16, 1710-11.

LETTER 15.

LONDON, Jan. 31, 1710-11.

LETTER 16.

LONDON, Feb. 10, 1710-11.

LETTER 17.

LONDON, Feb. 24, 1710-11.

LETTER 18.

LONDON, March 10, 1710-11.

LETTER 19.

LONDON, March 24, 1710-11.

LETTER 20.

LONDON, April 5, 1711.

LETTER 21.

LONDON, April 14, 1711.

LETTER 22.

CHELSEA, April 28, 1711.

LETTER 23.

CHELSEA, May 12, 1711.

LETTER 24.

CHELSEA, May 24, 1711.

LETTER 25.

CHELSEA, June 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

LETTER 26.

CHELSEA, June 30, 1711.

LETTER 27.

LONDON, July 19, 1711.

LETTER 28.

WINDSOR, Aug. 11, 1711.

LETTER 29.

LONDON, Aug. 25, 1711.

LETTER 30.

WINDSOR, Sept. 8, 1711.

LETTER 31.

LONDON, Sept. 25, 1711.

LETTER 32.

LONDON, Oct. 9, 1711.