Gulliver's Travels: Into Several Remote Nations of the World - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532938292 ISBN 13: 9781532938290

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver’s encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift’s fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.

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Review:

"An excellent edition...I look forward to adopting it next time I use Gulliver in a course."--Peter Schakel, Hope College

From the Publisher:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1532938292
• ISBN 13: 9781532938290
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Illustrator: Rackham Arthur