{"product_id":"2026100009946-secondhand-gullivers-travels","title":"Gulliver's Travels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Excellent\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels stands as one of the most audacious and enduring works in the English literary canon, chronicling the fantastical voyages of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver through kingdoms of miniature men, towering giants, airborne islands, and rational horses — each land a razor-sharp mirror held up to the follies of humanity. What begins as a rollicking adventure narrative swiftly transforms into a devastating satire, as Swift skewers the political corruption, imperial ambition, and moral vanity of 18th-century European society with surgical precision and barely concealed fury.\n\nSwift's genius lies in his ability to weaponise the seemingly innocent form of the travel narrative, luring the reader into a world of delightful absurdity before delivering his most scathing indictments of human nature. This Franklin Library edition, illustrated by Thomas Morten, pairs Swift's immortal prose with artwork that captures both the whimsy and the darkness at the heart of the tale. Nearly three centuries after its first publication, Gulliver's Travels remains as wickedly relevant as ever — a book that the more closely one reads it, the less comfortable one becomes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161017622747,"sku":"2026100009946-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4af9b31f-bc60-409e-9c84-ed0547cc2451.png?v=1787189134","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009946-secondhand-gullivers-travels","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}