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【正文】 hile exploring a new country, Gulliver is abandoned by his panions and found by a farmer who is 72 feet (22 meters) tall (the scale of Lilliput is approximately 1:12, of Brobdingnag 12:1) who treats him as a curiosity and exhibits him for money. He is then bought by the Queen of Brobdingnag and kept as a favourite at court. In between small adventures such as fighting giant wasps and being carried to the roof by a monkey, he discusses the state of Europe with the King, who is not impressed. On a trip to the seaside, his travelling box is seized by a giant eagle and dropped into the sea where he is picked up by sailors and returned to England. [edit] Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan Gulliver39。s Travels appeared on the market. The book became an instant success, with every class of people clamoring to read it. Using his sharp wit and even sharper tongue, he penned documents that mocked society, religion, human nature, England, politics, and nearly every other facet of daily life. The book presents itself as a simple traveller39。s career began in earnest by writing his first politic pamphlet, favouring the Whigs, and by anonymously publishing his treatise, Dissensions in Athens and Rome, which caused a stir. Over the next decade, Jonathan Swift published numerous essays and pamphlets, most of which were mentaries on politics and current events. During this time, he also served as the editor of the Whigs39。t published for several more years. After Temple39。s fantastic adventures were read, in the words of Gay, ?from the cabicouncil to the Nursery?, as a travel book and as a powerful satire on human nature. The text is based on that of 1735, incorporating revisions by Swift of the first edition. ? Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. He had no father and his uncles decided to take charge of his education. After his university years in Dublin, he left Ireland and joined his mother in Leicester. He became William Temple39。s Travels also, but only as a single element in a story of universal appeal, full of humor and excitement. Written when Swift was nearly 60, and first published in 1726,it at once became literally one of the world39。弗蘭德斯 ). The list grew with astonishing rapidity, ending with the History of the Devil(魔鬼的歷史 ) in 1726. ? Defoe died in 1731. He was buried in what is now Bunhill fields. Comments on the significance of the novel “Robinson Crusoe” Robinson Crusoe is one of the protagonists drawn most successfully in English novels. Throughout his characterization of Crusoe, Defoe depicts him as a hero, struggling against nature and human fate with his indomitable will and hand, and eulogize
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