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Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels By Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift


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Gulliver's Travels Summary

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift's masterpiece is the finest satire in the English language. Lemuel Gulliver's adventures with the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput and the giants of Brobdingnag are familiar from modern abridged adaptations, but the scientists and philosophers of Laputa, the intelligent, horselike Houyhnhnms and the bestial Yahoos provide further opportunities for Swift to satirise society in a manner just as relevant today as it was in the eighteenth century.

lllustrated by Arthur Rackham, with an afterword by Henry Hitchings.

About Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. Although he spent most of his childhood in Ireland, he considered himself English, and, aged twenty-one, moved to England, where he found employment as secretary to the diplomat Sir William Temple. On Temple's death in 1699, Swift returned to Dublin to pursue a career in the Church. By this time he was also publishing in a variety of genres, and between 1704 and 1729 he produced a string of brilliant satires, of which Gulliver's Travels is the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; he was buried there when he died in 1745.

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GOR002906574
9781904633716
1904633714
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
20040801
408
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