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A PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER GULLIVERS TRAVEL...

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man
and society. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver  a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput
he discovers a world in miniature  towering over the people and their city  he is able to view
their society from the viewpoint of a god. However  in Brobdingnag  a land of giants  tiny
Gulliver himself comes under observation  exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In
Laputa  a flying island  he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost
all grip on everyday reality  while they plan and calculate  their country lies in ruins.
Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms  gentle horses whom he quickly
comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos  filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing
resemblance to humans. This text  based on the first edition of 1726  reproduces all the
original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria  Jr  which discusses the
ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745) was born in Dublin. For more than seventy years  Penguin has been the leading
publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1 700 titles 
Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across
genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by
introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors  as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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