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Gulliver's Travels: A Tale of a Tube & The Battle of the Books
Gulliver's Travels A Tale of a Tube The Battle of the Books Author:Jonathan Swift The Tale of a Tub was first published in 1704, in one vlume with The Battle of the Books just before Jonathan Swift turned thirty. Just before he was sixty he publishd Gulliver's Travels. — 1) Gulliver's Travels: "Swift assuming the role Gulliver, a sensible unimaginative man, he told of a voyage to Lilliput, the land of pigmies, where the travel... more »ler looked down upon the insectile creatures and found them mere parodies of men, with all the human follies and vices. Other voyages included destinations such as Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Houyhnhnms."
2) The Tale of a Tub "A Father and his three sons, his will and his legacies to them. Of the young men's carriage at the beginning; and of the genteel qualifications they acquired in town."
3)The Battle of the Books "Wit, without knowledge, being a sort of cream, which gathers in a night to the top, and, by a skilful hand, may be soon whipped into froth; but, once scummed away, what appears underneath will be fit for nothing but to be thrown to the hogs."« less