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Painted portraitCharles Jervas · Public domain

Jonathan Swift

Swift’s imaginary voyages test claims to knowledge and authority. The selected scenes contrast useful work with elaborate schemes; attend to Gulliver and his hosts before reading their remarks as direct advice.

1667 AD – 1745 AD · 224 collected ↗