| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Fantasy Contributor(s): Swift, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598182560 ISBN-13: 9781598182569 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Swift's classic tale of the world travels of Lemuel Gulliver -- a tale that reverberates beyond its medium, its content, and its context. If you haven't read Swift's original, but have only happened on it through the infinite number of adaptations of this work, you need to read it now; it's a classic that may not be at all what you've come to think. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 620 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.31 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." |
Contributor Bio(s): Swift, Jonathan: - "Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopędia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian."" |