Gulliver's Travels
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few works of English literature have endured with such savage wit and imaginative audacity as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a razor-sharp satirical odyssey that chronicles the fantastical voyages of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver through lands populated by tiny Lilliputians, towering giants, rational horses, and philosophically absurd immortals. First published in 1726, the novel masquerades as a straightforward travel narrative — a genre enormously popular in Swift's era — only to systematically dismantle human pride, political corruption, and the blind faith placed in reason and science. What begins as rousing adventure swiftly reveals itself as one of history's most corrosive indictments of civilization itself. Swift's genius lies in his ability to construct each fantastical world as a precise, devastating mirror held up to 18th-century European society, with particular venom reserved for political institutions, war, and mankind's inexhaustible capacity for self-delusion. This edition, part of the prestigious Oxford Library of the World's Great Books and illustrated by Thomas Morten, presents the text with the scholarly care it demands, making it an essential volume for any serious reader. Swift's prose — elegant, deadpan, and mercilessly ironic — continues to unsettle readers centuries after its first publication, leaving one to wonder just how much, or how little, humanity has changed.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few works of English literature have endured with such savage wit and imaginative audacity as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a razor-sharp satirical odyssey that chronicles the fantastical voyages of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver through lands populated by tiny Lilliputians, towering giants, rational horses, and philosophically absurd immortals. First published in 1726, the novel masquerades as a straightforward travel narrative — a genre enormously popular in Swift's era — only to systematically dismantle human pride, political corruption, and the blind faith placed in reason and science. What begins as rousing adventure swiftly reveals itself as one of history's most corrosive indictments of civilization itself. Swift's genius lies in his ability to construct each fantastical world as a precise, devastating mirror held up to 18th-century European society, with particular venom reserved for political institutions, war, and mankind's inexhaustible capacity for self-delusion. This edition, part of the prestigious Oxford Library of the World's Great Books and illustrated by Thomas Morten, presents the text with the scholarly care it demands, making it an essential volume for any serious reader. Swift's prose — elegant, deadpan, and mercilessly ironic — continues to unsettle readers centuries after its first publication, leaving one to wonder just how much, or how little, humanity has changed.