Swift: Gulliver's Travels

By Richard Gravil

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
1992
ISBN
9781350388314, 9781350395930
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26236408 bytes)
Series
A Casebook
Pages
\249
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 17:57:24

Description

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.

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