Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780141196640)

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Format: Hardcover
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Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels

$22.00
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels

$22.00
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

Author: Jonathan Swift
ISBN-10: 0141196645
ISBN-13: 9780141196640
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.20d
By Jonathan Swift
By Jonathan Swift
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Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and clergyman, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), was born in Dublin to English parents. He embarked on a career as diplomatic secretary and became increasingly involved in politics. He published many satirical works of verse and prose, including 'A Tale of a Tub', 'A Modest Proposal', and 'Gulliver's Travels'. Robert DeMaria, Jr. is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, New York. He has published widely on 17th and 18th century literature.

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