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Robert DeMaria

    Robert DeMaria, Jr. is de Henry Noble MacCracken Professor in Engelse literatuur aan het Vassar College. Zijn belangrijkste studiegebied is de achttiende-eeuwse Britse literatuur, met een bijzondere focus op Samuel Johnson. Zijn academische werk richt zich op een dieper begrip van deze periode en haar sleutelfiguren. Hij analyseert de literaire stijlen en thema's die de Britse literatuur vormgaven.

    Gulliver's Travels
    • Gulliver's Travels

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      HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.

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