Gulliver's Travels (Wordsworth

Jonathan Swift

ISBN 10: 1853260274 / ISBN 13: 9781853260278

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997

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Synopsis:

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal).

As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times.

About the Author: Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667, after the death of his father. A cousin of Dryden, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and for much of his early life travelled frequently between Ireland and England. Swift became increasingly occupied with Irish affairs, and wrote a great number of works including celebrated satires like A Tale of a Tub' and A Modest Proposal', political pamphlets and Gulliver's Travels all informed by his sense of the Whigs' unfair treatment of Ireland. Nearly all of his works were published anonymously, and he only received payment for Gulliver's Travels. He died, after a long illness in 1745.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Gulliver's Travels (Wordsworth
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good