Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver or Gulliver's Travels (Part IV)
Quotes:
"Nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison." (part II)
"In reality all things imaginable are but Nouns." (part III)
"My principal Design was to Inform, and not to amuse thee." (part IV)
(for other quotes from the Travels see here)
Contexts:
- A wiki bio of Jonathan Swift
- Cummings's study guide of Gulliver
- Cummings's study guide of the "Modest Proposal"
- The rise of the novel form -- a wiki article
Terms:
- Liliput, Man-Mountain, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Yahoo, Houyhnhnm
- political satire; verbal irony; verisimilitude
