Gulliver's Travels: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

ISBN-13: 9781847495976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

Jonathan Swift

Opis

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses.Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature.

Recenzje

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them. George Orwell

O autorze

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was a prolific writer, poet and essayist whose celebrated fantasy Gulliver's Travels established him as one of the greatest satirists in English literary history.