![]() Gulliver's Travels $14.98 The DVD was loose in the case when I got it, so I was a bit scared it would be scratched, but it survived! I can't believe I it was in such good quality to find such a rare find! I would recommend in the future. ![]() Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) $8.00 Gulliver's Travels is the must read satire that echoes down the years. Swift brilliantly deployed (even invented) many great satirical devices such as messing about with scale, using exaggeration to hold a mirror to ugly human foibles and making the mores of his contemporary society look rediculous. Packed with quirky travellers tales, notes from 17th century sea travel, games, playfullness and proto sci-fi worlds, Gulliver's travels is a compendium of literary genius to last a lifetime. ![]() Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics) $7.95 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. An extraordinarily 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. ![]() Classic Starts: Gulliver's Travels (Classic Starts Series) $5.95 Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift¡Çs unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe. |
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