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.
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