An edition of Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Gulliver's travels

complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

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An edition of Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Gulliver's travels

complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

  • 3.6 (88 ratings)
  • 751 Want to read
  • 45 Currently reading
  • 142 Have read

This edition of Swift's classic novel presents the 1965 Herbert Davis Edition (based on the Faulkner Edition of 1735) along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read Gulliver's Travels from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach.

In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Swift and Gulliver's Travels, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

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English
Pages
480

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Boston
Series
Case studies in contemporary criticism
Genre
Early works to 1800., Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.5
Library of Congress
PR3724 .G7 1995, PR3724.G7 1995, PN1-PN6790

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 480 p. :
Number of pages
480

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1752263M
ISBN 10
0312102844, 0312066651, 0333634381
LCCN
92075897
OCLC/WorldCat
31794911
LibraryThing
3373
Goodreads
440923
1812975
1368002

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20600W

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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