Gulliver's Travels
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few works of literature have wielded satire with such devastating precision as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a masterwork of 18th-century prose that dispatches its hero, the surgeon and seafarer Lemuel Gulliver, on a series of extraordinary voyages to lands populated by tiny Lilliputians, towering Brobdingnagians, rational horses, and decadent immortals. First published in 1726, the novel chronicles Gulliver's ever-shifting perspectives on humanity as each fantastical civilization holds up a warped mirror to European society, politics, and human vanity with biting, often merciless wit. Swift's genius lies in his ability to cloak savage political and philosophical argument within the irresistible framework of adventure, making Gulliver's Travels simultaneously a children's fantasy and one of the most coruscating critiques of human nature ever committed to the page. The novel argues, with cold brilliance, that mankind's pride in its own rationality and civilization is perhaps its greatest folly. This Heron Books edition, with an illuminating introduction by scholar Peter Quennell, presents Swift's text in a form that rewards both the returning admirer and the first-time reader — leaving one to wonder, on the final page, whether Gulliver's ultimate disgust is directed at the societies he visited, or at us.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few works of literature have wielded satire with such devastating precision as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a masterwork of 18th-century prose that dispatches its hero, the surgeon and seafarer Lemuel Gulliver, on a series of extraordinary voyages to lands populated by tiny Lilliputians, towering Brobdingnagians, rational horses, and decadent immortals. First published in 1726, the novel chronicles Gulliver's ever-shifting perspectives on humanity as each fantastical civilization holds up a warped mirror to European society, politics, and human vanity with biting, often merciless wit. Swift's genius lies in his ability to cloak savage political and philosophical argument within the irresistible framework of adventure, making Gulliver's Travels simultaneously a children's fantasy and one of the most coruscating critiques of human nature ever committed to the page. The novel argues, with cold brilliance, that mankind's pride in its own rationality and civilization is perhaps its greatest folly. This Heron Books edition, with an illuminating introduction by scholar Peter Quennell, presents Swift's text in a form that rewards both the returning admirer and the first-time reader — leaving one to wonder, on the final page, whether Gulliver's ultimate disgust is directed at the societies he visited, or at us.