Название: Gulliver's Travels
Автор: Knowledge house
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Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 9782380373318
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Table of Contents
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson
Part 2 A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Part 3 A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan
Part 4 A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Published: 1726 Categorie(s): Fiction, Humorous
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1727.
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world." But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce every thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memory; СКАЧАТЬ