Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

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Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
  • ISBN10 0140620842
  • ISBN13 9780140620849
  • Publish Date 26 May 1994 (first published December 1930)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 May 2011
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 336
  • Language English