Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)

by JeanetteWinterson (Introduction), JonathanSwift (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $6.94

  Gulliver's Travels (1726) is one of the most compelling satires ever written, rated by George Orwell among the six most indispensable books in world literature. Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and in the country of the Houyhnhnms exposes the absurdity and hypocrisy of intellectuals and governments the world over.

• Used

  Paperback
  1976

  $3.24

• Used

  Hardcover
  1983

  $4.16

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $6.99

  With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times.

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $14.01

  Uses the narrative of a mock travel writer to explore exotic and imaginary locations. This book mounts a scathing attack on the morals, politics and learning of the 18th century, culminating in possibly the greatest satire ever written: the story of the Houyhnhnms.