Gulliver's Travels
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works of literature have achieved the enduring cultural resonance of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's savage and brilliantly comic masterpiece, first published in 1726. The novel chronicles the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon of modest ambitions, whose maritime misfortunes deposit him in a succession of extraordinary lands — from Lilliput, where he towers over a civilization of six-inch inhabitants, to Brobdingnag, where he is himself a miniature curiosity in a land of giants — each voyage a devastating mirror held up to the vanities of human society. Swift's genius lies in his deployment of the fantastical as a vehicle for the most ferocious political and moral satire, skewering the ambitions of empire, the corruption of courts, and the follies of philosophical reason with equal and remorseless precision. The prose is deceptively plain, lending the outlandish an air of documentary credibility that makes its critique all the more subversive. This Vintage edition presents one of the most important texts in the English canon in a form accessible to modern readers — yet the questions it raises about power, war, and human nature remain as urgent and unsettling as the day Swift first committed them to the page.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works of literature have achieved the enduring cultural resonance of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's savage and brilliantly comic masterpiece, first published in 1726. The novel chronicles the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon of modest ambitions, whose maritime misfortunes deposit him in a succession of extraordinary lands — from Lilliput, where he towers over a civilization of six-inch inhabitants, to Brobdingnag, where he is himself a miniature curiosity in a land of giants — each voyage a devastating mirror held up to the vanities of human society. Swift's genius lies in his deployment of the fantastical as a vehicle for the most ferocious political and moral satire, skewering the ambitions of empire, the corruption of courts, and the follies of philosophical reason with equal and remorseless precision. The prose is deceptively plain, lending the outlandish an air of documentary credibility that makes its critique all the more subversive. This Vintage edition presents one of the most important texts in the English canon in a form accessible to modern readers — yet the questions it raises about power, war, and human nature remain as urgent and unsettling as the day Swift first committed them to the page.