Jonathan Swift:Gulliver's Travels
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A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Re… Altro …
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher > Reise & Abenteuer;Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher > Fantasy & Science Fiction 19.5 cm x 12.6 cm x 1.9 cm mm , Penguin Books Ltd, Taschenbuch, Penguin Books Ltd<
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Gulliver's Travels
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A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Re… Altro …
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Fremdsprachige Bücher 19.5 x 12.6 x 1.9 cm , Penguin Books Ltd, Penguin Books Ltd<
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Jonathan Swift:Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by six-inch people whose height only emphasizes the pettiness of their quarrels. His subsequent… Altro …
Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by six-inch people whose height only emphasizes the pettiness of their quarrels. His subsequent encounters-with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos-give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behavior. With a text based on the first edition of 1726, this volume includes full explanatory notes, bibliography, and illustrations. A new introduction discusses the book's contemporary reception, as well as the political and artistic aspects of the work. Swift claimed he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than to divert it," but it remains literature's most vital satire-supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony. Media > Book, [PU: Penguin Books]<
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Swift, J.:Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics S.)
- edizione con copertina flessibile 2001, ISBN: 0140437347
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Swift, J. Demaria, Jr., R. (Ed.):Gulliver's Travels
- edizione con copertina flessibile 2001, ISBN: 0140437347
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