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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and clergyman, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), was born in Dublin to English parents. He published many satirical works of verse and prose, including 'A Tale of a Tub', 'A Modest Proposal', and 'Gulliver's Travels'.
Robert DeMaria, Jr. is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, New York. He has published widely on 17th and 18th century literature.
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Whoever has an ambition to be heard in a crowd, must press, and squeeze, and thrust, and climb, with indefatigable pains, till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them. Read the first page
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I am gratified that I am the first person to review this insult. Gratified because I can warn all potential victims and gratified that hopefully this means no one except me has been swindled to date. These things are unreadable. I can't figure out why they are published or why Amazon sells them. They are some sort of cut and paste job that looks like what would happen if you tried to open up a word file using another word processing program. It is a total jumble. Not just missing letters or incorrect letters, but footnotes in the body of the text in the same font. Sentence structure and paragraphs are damned. It's broken into sections with no rhyme or reason. I bought a similar disaster of the The Golden Ass. They stopped it 50 pages into a 300 page book. Not sure if this will be cut short too, but, if it is rest assured I will demand my money back once again. I should now. Please. Amazon. Please. Stop selling these things. It's bad enough that you now sell books at brick and mortar prices (if not more). You should have some quality control. It doesn't make me hate them. It makes me hate you.
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