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Gulliver's Travels: Into Several Remote Nations of the World: Complete and Unabridged
Paperback
HumorClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617202148
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Jan 26 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's great satirical masterpiece, a classic of English literature that turns imaginary voyages into a severe and enduring critique of politics, science, empire, vanity, and human pride. Lemuel Gulliver's journeys to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, the land of the Houyhnhnms, and other remote nations begin in the form of travel adventure, but Swift steadily transforms the voyage narrative into one of the sharpest works of social and political satire ever written. Its miniature kingdoms, giant courts, speculative academies, and rational horses expose the follies of government, scholarship, war, colonial ambition, and the human appetite for self-deception.
Read for centuries as adventure, fantasy, satire, and philosophical fiction, Gulliver's Travels remains one of the defining works of eighteenth-century literature. Swift's wit is often comic, but the comedy is edged with moral severity, giving the book its lasting power as both an imaginative classic and an unsparing study of human nature. This complete and unabridged edition preserves the full force of Swift's original design for readers of classic literature, political satire, imaginary voyages, Enlightenment writing, and the history of the English novel.
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