Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)

Jonathan Swift

ISBN 10: 0140437347 / ISBN 13: 9780140437348

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2001

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Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.52. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0140437347I5N00

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Titel: Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)

Verlag: Penguin Classics

Erscheinungsdatum: 2001

Einband: Unknown

Zustand: Fair

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Inhaltsangabe:

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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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.