Gulliver's Travels
$26.21
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2012
Summary
A Voyage Through Satire: Gulliver’s Travels
‘Fifteen hundred of the Emperor’s largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant’
A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver’s Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198982 |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
| Author: | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) balanced his role as Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin with being one of the most effective, disgusted and ferocious satirists in the English language. Gulliver’s Travels is both a parody of what Swift viewed as the ridiculously contrived exotic travel genre pioneered by writers such as Captain William Dampier and an incomparably vivid and funny narrative that lies at the very heart of early English fiction.
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