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  • Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

    by Johnathan Swift ...
    Shipwrecked, abandoned, and attacked by his own crew, Lemuel Gulliver’s four voyages across the sea were nothing if not eventful. Visiting a number of strange lands, from Lilliput to the Land of the Houyhnhnms (and even making a stop in Japan), the gullible one-time surgeon slowly sheds his optimistic worldview with every new race of creatures he encounters. Will Gulliver make it back home? Or is ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Modest Proposal

    by Johnathan Swift ...
    I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Gulliver’s Travels

    by Johnathan Swift ...
    The four-part novel relates ship captain Lemuel Gulliver's voyages to fanciful countries such as Lilliput and Brobdingnag, where he meets both tiny and giant inhabitants. The work's satirical attacks on English politicians and social practices, as well as its coarse descriptions of bodily functions, provoke much comment and controversy among the reading public. Even the first publisher of the book ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

    A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection

    by Midwest Journal Writers' Club, Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Johnathan Swift ...
    Series series Midwest Journal Writers Club
    About this book:Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best ... Read more

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  • David Copperfield

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    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”Considered to be Charles Dickens’ most autobiographical work, David Copperfield begins at the beginning — with the main character describing the events surrounding his birth (as far as he knows). David’s journey of growing up and finding his place in the world is ... Read more

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  • Notre-Dame de Paris

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    by Victor Hugo ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Victor Hugo
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  • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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  • Great Expectations

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  • Jane Eyre

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