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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 prose satire of 1726 by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the travellers' tales literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels to vex the world rather than divert it.The book was an immediate success. John Gay remarked It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery.In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gullivers Travels is listed as a satirical masterpiece.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook PlotBook Composition And HistoryBook Cultural Influences

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. One of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, its narrative course, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. The work has never been out of print, and it has been translated into at least 97 languages. Its ongoing legacy encompasses many adaptations for stage, screen, radio, art, theme parks, board games, and video games. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook BackgroundBook Publication History

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SCIENCE: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Michio Kaku, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Nikola Tesla, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. Albert Einstein-We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. Carl Sagan-The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov-A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche-Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. Michael Crichton-You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller-We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan

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Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under her pseudonym «Ellis Bell». Brontë's only finished novel, it was written between October 1845 and June 1846. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals regarding religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality.. The novel also explores the effects of envy, nostalgia, pessimism and resentment. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, although an admirer of the book, referred to it as «A fiend of a book an incredible monster […] The action is laid in hell, only it seems places and people have English names there.» Wuthering Heights contains elements of gothic fiction, and the moorland setting is a significant aspect of the drama. The novel has inspired many adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations; a musical; a ballet; operas, and a song by Kate Bush.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryWorks Inspired By The Book

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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret, 13.The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because Norland is passed down to John, the product of Mr. Dashwood's first marriage, and his young son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new home. They have the opportunity to rent a modest home, Barton Cottage, on the property of a distant relative, Sir John Middleton. There they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The novel is likely set in southwest England, London, and Sussex between 1792 and 1797. The novel, which sold out its first print run of 750 copies in the middle of 1813, marked a success for its author. It had a second print run later that year. It was the first Austen title to be republished in England after her death, and the first illustrated Austen produced in Britain, in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series of 1833. The novel continued in publication throughout the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries and has many times been illustrated, excerpted, abridged, and adapted for stage and film. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionDevelopment Of The NovelBook Publication History

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KNOWLEDGE: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOM
INCLUDING: Socrates, Albert Einstein, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lao Tzu, Malcolm X, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Plato, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Osho And Many More!
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GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.
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BOOK EXTRACTS:
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ― Socrates

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"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." ― Albert Einstein

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"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better." ― Maya Angelou

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"No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire." ― L. Frank Baum

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"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." ― Socrates

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Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. A classic piece filled with comedy, its humour lies in its honest depiction of manners, education, marriage and money during the Regency era in Great Britain.Mr Bennet of Longbourn estate has five daughters, but because his property is entailed it can only be passed from male heir to male heir. Since his wife also lacks an inheritance, Mr Bennet's family will be destitute upon his death. Thus it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well to support the others, which is a motivation that drives the plot. Jane Austen's opening line–"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"is a sentence filled with irony and sets the tone for the book. The novel revolves around the importance of marrying for love, not for money or social prestige, despite the communal pressure to make a good (i.e., wealthy) match.Pride and Prejudice has consistently appeared near the top of lists of «most-loved books» among literary scholars and the reading public. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature with over 20 million copies sold, and has inspired many derivatives that abound in modern literature. For more than a century, amateur and professional dramatic adaptations, reprints, unofficial sequels, films, and TV versions of Pride and Prejudice have portrayed the memorable characters and themes of the novel, reaching mass audiences. The 2005 film Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, is the most recent film adaptation that closely represents the book, with the 2016 action, comedy, and horror spin-off Pride and Prejudice and Zombies being the most recent Hollywood film adaptation. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Publication And History

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UNIVERSE: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Carl Sagan, Alan W. Watts, Stephen Hawking, Deepak Chopra, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Isaac Asimov And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke-A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L'Engle- The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson- Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works? Diane Duane- We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury

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In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession. It is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Summary

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TIME: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: J.R.R. Tolkien, Mother Theresa, Oprah Winfrey, Coco Chanel, Andy Warhol, Charles Darwin, Lao Tzu, Alan Watts, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Austen And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo.So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J.R.R. Tolkien-It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry- Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Theresa- You can have it all. Just not all at once. Oprah Winfrey- Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel- They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol

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