Gulliver’s Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the “travellers’ tales” literary subgenre. It is Swift’s best known …
Last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 , and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship’s open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti …
Six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon
1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement
Comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding
Novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work’s protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad , encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued
French clergyman and leading diplomat
American statesman, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer
