Gulliver's Travels (Alma Classics)
Author(s): Jonathan Swift
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses. Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature.
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Jonathan Swift's superb satire resonates through the ages.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer of prose, poetry, essays and political pamphlets, and is probably the best-known satirist in the English language. His novel Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature.
General Fields
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- : Alma Classics
- : 0.258094
- : 01 July 2016
- : 198mm X 128mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jonathan Swift
- : Paperback
- : Nov-16
- : English
- : 256