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The imaginative satire by Jonathan Swift is now available in an
unabridged paperback edition for today’s young readers.
Lemuel Gulliver is a ship’s surgeon whose journeys go astray
after a shipwreck on the high seas. He encounters a race of
miniature people known as Lilliputians; giant Brobdingnagians; the
foolish Laputians; the very humanoid Yahoos; and finally, the
gentle and wise horse-like Houyhnhnms. Will Gulliver ever make it
home again? At once magical and rich in philosophy, this unabridged
paperback edition is perfect for young readers’ libraries.
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to
create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift
edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury
endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a
Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern
reader. Gorgeous gift edition. Jonathan Swift's classic is one the
greatest novels written in the English language. It's a monumental
satire of political and social mores, particularly of the
Seventeenth Century obsession with travel and exploration. Gulliver
journeys through a series of islands meeting a fantastical array of
people – the tiny Liliputions, the gigantic Brobdingnags,
philosophers on a floating island, unhappy immortals, elevated
speaking horses, and brutish humans called Yahoos. His observations
oblige the reader to think of themselves in such company, to
measure their own behaviour, and think beyond their own
preconceived notions. Such preoccupations resonate still today.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics.
'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most
pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered
to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'
Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself
washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by
quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet
others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of
Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire
on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's
condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates
today.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors
offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets
in our literature. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin,
of English parents, and educated at Trinity College Dublin.
London-based for many years, and a noted satirist during the reign
of Queen Anne, he returned to Dublin in 1713 as Dean of St.
Patrick's Cathedral. Gulliver's Travels appeared in 1726. Derek
Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941, studied at Trinity College,
Dublin, and has held journalistic and academic appointments in
London and New York. He has received numerous awards including a
Lannan Award and the Scot Moncrieff Translation Prize. His
Collected Poems was published in 1999.
The perfect gift for a curious mind. Share your beloved childhood
stories with the next generation! When Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's
surgeon, sets off on the high seas in search of adventure, things
never seem to go quite according to plan. Through a series of
disasters and misadventures, he finds himself cast upon strange
islands whose inhabitants are of the most unusual size, and the
most confusing philosophies. Gulliver's Travels has been loved by
many generations of readers for almost 300 years, and the telling
of the misfortunes and pleasures of its eponymous hero is one of
Jonathan Swift's most enduring legacies. A full-colour illustrated
edition of one of the world's best loved stories. 'Ingpen's
drawings are utterly compelling' - Michael Morpurgo
A controversial satire of eighteenth-century British culture and
politics, Gulliver's Travels (1726) is one of Jonathan Swift's
best-known works. The tale of Lemuel Gulliver's voyage to
fantastical locales is famous for confounding generations of
readers who have attempted to make sense of its jumble of genre
elements, and Daniel Cook's introduction offers a friendly and
thorough guide to navigating it. The Norton Library edition
presents the text of the 1735 edition, including original maps and
illustrations.
New paperback edition of this modern retelling of a perennial
favourite, with illustrations by Lauren O'Neill! Gulliver's Travels
is a memorable classic that takes you into the amazing worlds
travelled by Lemuel Gulliver. In Lilliput, he is a giant compared
to the tiny people there, followed by the reverse in Brobdingnag,
where Gulliver finds himself in a country of giants. Full of humour
and adventure, these exciting stories have survived the centuries
and are now retold and re-imagined with thrilling illustrations.
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find
himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians.
But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries,
as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as
Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the
eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a
race of benevolent talking horses. Parodying the popular travel
accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de
force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers
of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly,
merciless satire on Western society and human nature.
Gulliver is shipwrecked in the strange land of Lilliput. He must
win the people's trust. When Lilliput is attacked, will Gulliver
risk his life to save the kingdom?
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Gulliver's Travels (Paperback)
Jonathan Swift; Introduction by Doreen Roberts; Notes by Doreen Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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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.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of
your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin
that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'
Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed
up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by
quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet
others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of
Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire
on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's
condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.
Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift's unforgettable satire
takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange
and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among
a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives
are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of
Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior
to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe. Abridged for
easier reading, with "Classic Starts[trademark]", young readers can
experience the wonder of timeless stories from an early age.
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Gulliver's Travels (Paperback)
Jonathan Swift; Edited by Claude Rawson, Ian Higgins
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In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a
reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just
experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been
impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel
book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the
inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag,
Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily
skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by
turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays
tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most
disturbing satires of the human condition.
The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels
currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis
of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing
frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive
early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader's
uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by
Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's
role-playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
“Contexts” features a generous selection of contemporary
materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents,
and personal writings. “Criticism” provides readers with a wide
chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations,
divided into two sections. The first, “1745–1940,” includes
assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B.
Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and André Breton, among others. The second,
“After 1940,” is by subject and collects critical discussions
of A Tale of the Tub, the poems, the English and Irish politics,
and Gulliver’s Travels, by Hugh Kenner, Marcus Walsh, Irvin
Ehrenpreis, Penelope Wilson, Derek Mahon, S. J. Connolly, George
Orwell, R. S. Crane, Jenny Mezciems, Ian Higgins, and Claude
Rawson. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
'Gulliver's Travels' describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's
encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places:
Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.
The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary.
First he is shipwrecked in a strange land, and finds himself a
prisoner of the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. Then he washes up in
Brobdingnag, where the people are giants of extraordinary
proportions. Further exploits see him stranded with the scientists
and philosophers of Laputa, and meeting a race of talking horses
who rule over bestial humans. One of the finest satires in the
English language, Gulliver's Travels delights in the mockery of
everything from government to religion and - despite the passing of
nearly three centuries - remains just as funny and relevant today.
This gorgeous Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Jonathan
Swift's Gulliver's Travels features the beautiful artwork of the
celebrated English illustrator Arthur Rackham, and an afterword by
author and critic, Henry Hitchings. Designed to appeal to the
booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Introduction by Pat Rogers
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This pack contains 6 books, one of each of: 20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea, Gulliver's Travels, The Lost World, Moonfleet, David
Copperfield, Black Beauty.
El temerario y aventurero Gulliver decide dejar de lado su
profesió n de cirujano para emprender viajes que lo llevará n a
dos paí ses extrañ í simos, Liliput y Brobdingnag, habitados por
seres diminutos y gigantes asombrosos, respectivamente. De sus
increí bles peripecias y de có mo se las ingenió para volver a
su Inglaterra natal tratan estas satí ricas historias de Jonathan
Swift, verdaderos clá sicos de la literatura juvenil.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these
delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself
on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height
makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His
subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the
philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new,
bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views
mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified
and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising
reflection of ourselves.
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