Gulliver's Travels
Published on 30. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-14-043734-8 (ISBN)
Description
Combining travel narrative and powerful satire, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was an immediate success when it was published in 1726. As soon as Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Swift's distortion of reality begins and man is seen as a diminished, magnified, abstracted, and finally bestial species. Whether expurgated and adapted for children, or read as a biting and incisive satire on humanity, the novel continues to appeal to readers on a variety of levels.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
223 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-043734-8 (9780140437348)
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Jonathan Swift | Robert DeMaria
Gulliver's Travels
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01/2003
Penguin Classics
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Persons
Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and clergyman, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), was born in Dublin to English parents. He embarked on a career as diplomatic secretary and became increasingly involved in politics. He published many satirical works of verse and prose, including 'A Tale of a Tub', 'A Modest Proposal', and 'Gulliver's Travels'. Robert DeMaria, Jr. is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, New York. He has published widely on 17th and 18th century literature.