Deaniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * The book presents itself as a simple travellers narrative with the disingenuous title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, its authorship assigned only to Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, then a captain of several ships. Different editions contain different versions of the prefatory material which are basically the same as forewords in modern books. The book proper then is divided into four parts, which are as follows. Gullivers Travels Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput May 4, 1699 — April 13, 1702 The book begins with a short preamble in which Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history prior to his voyages. He enjoys traveling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall. Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag Gulliver Exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer by Richard Redgrave June 20, 1702 — June 3, 1706 Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan August 5, 1706 — April 16, 1710 After Gullivers ship is attacked by pirates, he is marooned near a desolate rocky island, near India. Fortunately he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics but utterly unable to use these for practical ends. Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms September 7, 1710 – July 2, 1715 Despite his earlier intention of remaining at home, Gulliver returns to sea. On this voyage he is forced to find new additions to his crew who he believes to have turned the rest of the crew against him. His pirates then mutiny and after keeping him contained for some time resolve to leave him on the first piece of land they come across and continue on as pirates. He is abandoned in a landing boat and comes first upon a race of (apparently) hideous deformed creatures to which he conceives a violent antipathy. Shortly thereafter he meets a horse and comes to understand that the horses (in their language Houyhnhnm or