Gulliver's Travels

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Swift's brilliant and satirical classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr.
Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans.
This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. Sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six, Swift later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. Among Swift's best known works is his ironic masterpiece, 'A Modest Proposal' (1729), and his novel, Gulliver's Travels (1726).

A Voyage to Lilliput
Gulliver Is Shipwrecked and Made a Prisoner	p. 1
The Emperor of Lilliput	p. 18
Gulliver at the Court of Lilliput	p. 34
The Emperor's Palace and His Principal Secretary	p. 45
Gulliver Prevents an Invasion of Lilliput	p. 53
Lilliput's Laws, Customs, and Educational Methods	p. 61
Escape to Blefuscu	p. 74
Gulliver Returns to His Native Country	p. 84
A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Gulliver Is Captured by a Native	p. 97
Gulliver Is Taken to the City	p. 113
The Queen Buys Gulliver from the Farmer	p. 123
Gulliver Shows His Skill in Navigation	p. 139
Gulliver Amuses the King and Queen	p. 158
Gulliver Returns to England	p. 172
Voyages to Laputa and the Country of the Houyhnhnms
A Flying Island	p. 193
Laputa and Its People	p. 203
The Grand Academy at Lagado	p. 220
The Land of Magic-Japan-Then Home	p. 238
The Houyhnhnms' Country	p. 255
Gulliver Understands the Speech of the Master Horse	p. 276
Gulliver Discusses England and Makes Observations on the Houyhnhnms	p. 293
Gulliver Is Forced to Return Home	p. 311
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About the author

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was born on 30th November 1667 in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College in that city and Oxford University. He was a cousin of John Dryden. Swift's father was a lawyer who had gone to Ireland after the Restoration, but he died before his son's birth. After becoming secretary to Sir William Temple in England, Swift returned to Dublin where he was ordained. In 1713 he became dean of St Patrick's.Swift gave one third of his income to charities and used his own money to fund St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles. He was himself thought by many to be insane in his later years.

Although nominally a Whig, Swift became editor of the Tory journal the Examiner His first major work, A Tale of a Tub, was published 1704 and through the development of his writing career he became close friends with the poet Alexander Pope. Together with other writers, they founded a literary group called the Martinus Scriblerus Club in 1713. His political satires form a large amount of his life's work and include the famous essay, A Modest Proposal (1729), where he suggests that the solution to the starvation of the poor in Ireland is that they should eat their own children. Gulliver's Travels (1729)is the only book for which he received any money (£200) and he never wrote under his own name. It is unclear whether Swift ever formally married, but he was very close to Esther Johnson, known as Stella, whom he had met through Temple. He died in 1745 and was buried beside her in St Patrick's.

His Latin epitaph, written by himself, reads: 'Here lies the body of Jonathan Swift, D.D., dean of this cathedral, where burning indignation can no longer lacerate his heart.Go, traveller, and imitate if you can a man who was an undaunted champion of liberty.

ISBN: 9780141439495
ISBN-10: 0141439491
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: General
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.4 x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.26
Edition Number: 1