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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Gulliver's Travels: Book IV, Chapters 1 - 6

Introductory Note

While Gulliver has learned much about human folly and vice in the first
three books, he has remained a great believer in mankind. His adventures have
been eye-openers but they have not turned him against man. The reader will
remember, however, that the man we met, writing about himself in his letter to
the publisher at the very beginning of this book, was mad with the madness of
misanthropy. In Book IV, we discover how Gulliver's journey into a discovery
of what man is becomes a journey into ...

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