An edition of Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Gulliver's travels

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An edition of Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Gulliver's travels

based on the 1726 text : contexts, criticism

1st ed.
  • 3.69 ·
  • 68 Ratings
  • 555 Want to read
  • 38 Currently reading
  • 107 Have read

"Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself in Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose six-inch height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour.".

"Although Gulliver's journeys take us to strange and wonderful places, it is impossible to ignore the reflections of ourselves with which Swift peoples his realms, where humankind is seen in a satirical hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species. With its wild distortions, optical illusions and undertones of madness and the grotesque, Gulliver's Travels defies our expectations of a conventional traveller's tale.

It is in fact a brillantly and rudelly subversive book."--BOOK JACKET.

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Norton
Language
English
Pages
511

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-511).

Published in
New York
Series
A Norton critical edition
Genre
Early works to 1800., Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.5
Library of Congress
PR3724.G8 R58 2002, PR3724.G7 R58 2002, PR3724.G8R58 2001

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Pagination
x, 511 p. :
Number of pages
511

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3949678M
Internet Archive
gulliverstravels0001swif_p5x1
ISBN 10
0393957241
LCCN
2001041005
OCLC/WorldCat
47216332
Library Thing
6425419
Goodreads
11118

Work Description

A parody of traveler’s tales and a satire of human nature, “Gulliver’s Travels” is Jonathan Swift’s most famous work which was first published in 1726. An immensely popular tale ever since its original publication, “Gulliver’s Travels” is the story of its titular character, Lemuel Gulliver, a man who loves to travel. A series of four journeys are detailed in which Gulliver finds himself in a number of amusing and precarious situations. In the first voyage, Gulliver is imprisoned by a race of tiny people, the Lilliputians, when following a shipwreck he is washed upon the shores of their island country. In his second voyage Gulliver finds himself abandoned in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, where he is exhibited for their amusement. In his third voyage, Gulliver once again finds himself marooned; fortunately he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics. He subsequently travels to the surrounding lands of Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. Finally in his last voyage, when he is set adrift by a mutinous crew, he finds himself in the curious Country of the Houyhnhnms. Through the various experiences of Gulliver, Swift brilliantly satirizes the political and cultural environment of his time in addition to creating a lasting and enchanting tale of fantasy. This edition is illustrated by Milo Winter and includes an introduction by George R. Dennis.

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