Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftA wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a

perhaps ended

while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power

that had been adopted by poets to help them shake off the artifice of conventional court poetry and express their personal feelings with wit and clarity

setting the stage for one of India's most culturally rich phases

the Apocrypha and the New Testament

picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist

Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response

leaving in its wake a disillusioned and despondent mankind

five thousand an hour

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which must be one of the most devastating endings in contemporary literature (but don't skip ahead)

Her only comfort is to buy herself something – just a little something…Can Becky ever escape from this dream world