Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2010
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-119664-0 (ISBN)

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. 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.

Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and clergyman, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), was born in Dublin to English parents. He embarked on a career as diplomatic secretary and became increasingly involved in politics. He published many satirical works of verse and prose, including A Tale of a Tub, A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver's Travels.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Clothbound Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 204 mm
Gewicht	452 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	0-14-119664-5 / 0141196645
ISBN-13	978-0-14-119664-0 / 9780141196640
Zustand	Neuware