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Gulliver's Travels

by Unknown Author

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(88 ratings)
360 pages2009General Books LLCISBN 9780217315760

About this book

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <br> <br> <p>'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'</p> <p>Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
General Books LLC
Published
2009
Pages
360
ISBN
9780217315760

About Unknown Author

Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

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