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Combining travel narrative and powerful satire, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was an immediate success when it was published in 1726. As soon as Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Swift's distortion of reality begins and man is seen as a diminished, magnified, abstracted, and finally bestial species. Whether expurgated and adapted for children, or read as a biting and incisive satire on humanity, the novel continues to appeal to readers on a variety of levels.
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"An excellent edition...I look forward to adopting it next time I use Gulliver in a course."--Peter Schakel, Hope College "An excellent edition...I look forward to adopting it next time I use Gulliver in a course."--Peter Schakel, Hope College "An excellent edition...I look forward to adopting it next time I use Gulliver in a course."--Peter Schakel, Hope College "An excellent edition...I look forward to adopting it next time I use Gulliver in a course."--Peter Schakel, Hope College
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Lemuel Gulliver, ship's surgeon and castaway, has awaken in Lilliput, where the size of the tiny inhabitants makes their concerns and quarrels seem ridiculous. A second journey takes him to the kingdom of giants, where again his size gives him new adrift by pirates, Gulliver's final voyage brings him to the land of the Houyhnhms, horses with reason, who share their domain with the brutish Yahoos. He returns to England a changed man.
Swift's corrosive satire embraces all aspects of humanity. It is witty when dealing with foibles and frailty, bitterly when facing pride and stupidity, but compassionate and unsentimental when focused upon suffering.
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- PublisherPenguin Random House Australia
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0451519574
- ISBN 13 9780451519573
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
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