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"Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels , and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel . "Criticism"... Read Full Overview

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

A full-color illustrated edition of one of
the world's best loved stories, Gulliver's Travels,
illustrated by world-renowned illustrator Robert Ingpen.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both... Read Full Overview

Read by children as an adventure story and by adults as a devastating satire of society, Gulliver and his four journeys make for a fascinating blend of travelogue, realism, symbolism, and fantastic voyage - all with a serious philosophical intent.

At once satiric and magical, rich in philosophy and astonishing adventure, Gulliver s Travels transports children into worlds unknown. The entire voyage is seen through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship s surgeon whose amazing account begins with a shipwreck on the high seas... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

El libro se nos presenta como la narraci n de un viajero con el falso t tulo Viajes a varias remotas Naciones del Mundo, su autor a solo se asigna a Lemuel Gulliver, siendo al principio un cirujano, y luego un capit n de diversos barcos. El texto es presentado como una narraci... Read Full Overview

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both... Read Full Overview

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly "modern" protagonist, Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment, from its worship of science to its... Read Full Overview

It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.

"Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels,... Read Full Overview

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Los viajes de Gulliver fue publicada por primera vez en 1726, y tres siglos despu?s mantiene toda su vigencia. Esta c?lebre novela... Read Full Overview

Los viajes de Gulliver es la historia de la traves a comprendida por el capit n Lemuel Gulliver a trav s de diversas naciones remotas. En ellas encuentra mundos insospechados y fant sticos habitados por seres, aunque inteligentes, a su manera monstruosos y de costumbres extra... Read Full Overview