Gulliver's Travels
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
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One of the most savage and brilliant works of satirical fiction ever written, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels chronicles the extraordinary voyages of Lemuel Gulliver — ship's surgeon, reluctant adventurer, and ultimately a broken idealist — through four impossible lands that hold up a merciless mirror to the follies of mankind. From the miniature tyrannies of Lilliput to the terrifying rationalism of the Houyhnhnms, Swift constructs a world of savage irony in which every human institution — politics, science, religion, and war — is laid bare and found grotesquely wanting. Published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels stands as one of the towering achievements of English prose, a work that operates simultaneously as children's fantasy and devastating political allegory. Swift's style is deceptively plain, his narrator disarmingly earnest, yet beneath the surface of every adventure lies a corrosive wit that spares nothing and no one. This edition, introduced by the distinguished man of letters Peter Quennell, presents Swift's masterpiece with fresh critical perspective — reminding us that a tale about giants and tiny people remains, three centuries on, one of the most uncomfortably accurate portraits of human nature ever committed to the page.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
One of the most savage and brilliant works of satirical fiction ever written, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels chronicles the extraordinary voyages of Lemuel Gulliver — ship's surgeon, reluctant adventurer, and ultimately a broken idealist — through four impossible lands that hold up a merciless mirror to the follies of mankind. From the miniature tyrannies of Lilliput to the terrifying rationalism of the Houyhnhnms, Swift constructs a world of savage irony in which every human institution — politics, science, religion, and war — is laid bare and found grotesquely wanting. Published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels stands as one of the towering achievements of English prose, a work that operates simultaneously as children's fantasy and devastating political allegory. Swift's style is deceptively plain, his narrator disarmingly earnest, yet beneath the surface of every adventure lies a corrosive wit that spares nothing and no one. This edition, introduced by the distinguished man of letters Peter Quennell, presents Swift's masterpiece with fresh critical perspective — reminding us that a tale about giants and tiny people remains, three centuries on, one of the most uncomfortably accurate portraits of human nature ever committed to the page.