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Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift , Claude Rawson , Ian Higgins

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2005
ISBN
0192805347, 9780192805348, 9780191517150
LCC
PR3724 .G7 2005
Open Library ID
OL22616555M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1915060 bytes)
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Pages
422\423
Topic
Education
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition. The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader's uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's role playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver.

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