Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of sailing across the seas, but he never could have imagined the places his travels would take him. His adventures could be the greatest tales ever told, if he survives to tell them.
He craves excitement, adventure, new lands and new people. so he sets out on a voyage of discovery only to be washed away by a terrible storm that shores him to a most amazing land. This is lilliput, the land of the six-inch tall people!
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In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.
By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre.
This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers.
Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book was an immediate success.
From the inimitable Martin Rowson, a modern illustrated retelling of Swift's classic, Gulliver's Travels.
Presents an adaptation of the novel in which Gulliver travels to four unimaginable places: the land of the little people, the fantastic flying island, the land of the giants, and the nation ruled by intelligent horses.
In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.
Gulliver's Travels
Thrilling thought-provoking and wickedly funny Gulliver's unforgettable voyages to bizarre lands hold a distorting mirror up to real life.This Eyewitness Classic edition with its innovative use of photgraphy and narrative illustration ...
In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that ...
This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several ...
Written by Irish writer, Jonathan Swift, this story is both a satire and a parody that has become a classic of English literature. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents.
It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. This edition, copyright 1899, is illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.