Gulliver's Travels (Paperback)

Again, there is an unadorned feeling to this book, despite a number of line illustrations. Weisgard's work in color is so superior, that one perhaps expects more of him than of many other artists. But his line drawings add little to the force of this book. (Kirkus Reviews)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Wordsworth Classics
Release date:	May 1992
First published:	May 1992
Authors:	Jonathan Swift
Introduction by:	Doreen Roberts
Notes by:	Doreen Roberts
Series editors:	Keith Carabine
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	249
ISBN-13:	978-1-85326-027-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	1-85326-027-4
Barcode:	9781853260278

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