Gulliver's Travels : And Alexander Pope's Verses on Gulliver's Travels
ISBN: 9780141196640 | 0141196645
Edition: ReprintFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date: 4/26/2011
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Swift's classic tale in a gorgeous new clothbound edition.Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, prese... MORE
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), a poet, satirist, and clergyman, published many satirical works, among them A Modest Proposal.
Robert DeMaria, Jr. is Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English at Vassar College. He has published widely on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature.
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