Define Books As Gulliver's Travels
| Original Title: | Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships |
| ISBN: | 0141439491 (ISBN13: 9780141439495) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lemuel Gulliver |
| Setting: | Lilliput Brobdingnag |
Jonathan Swift
Paperback | Pages: 306 pages Rating: 3.57 | 221967 Users | 5201 Reviews
Details Appertaining To Books Gulliver's Travels
| Title | : | Gulliver's Travels |
| Author | : | Jonathan Swift |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 306 pages |
| Published | : | January 30th 2003 by Penguin (first published October 28th 1726) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Northern Africa. Egypt. Romance. Adult. Cultural. Africa |
Description Concering Books Gulliver's Travels
'I felt something alive moving on my left leg ... when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could. I perceived it to be a human Creature not six inches high'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 the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all its original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication.
Rating Appertaining To Books Gulliver's Travels
Ratings: 3.57 From 221967 Users | 5201 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books Gulliver's Travels
I was in error in giving this two stars back when I read this in high school, but not by much. Back then I was bored out of my gourd, here and now I'm done with "I will instinctively know the truth due to my super white able male powers." Regardless of whether 'tis beneficial to give Swift the full benefit of the fictional doubt as is popular in circles of academic aspiration, ugh.This is the perfect definition of a "classic": male, European, old, punches down on everything in the names of
Glad to get the references now: although I could have just read Wikipedia: the Lilliputians are small, the Brobdignagians big, the flying city is whatever, the Houhynhyns are really great (although he's pretty unpersuasive on this -- why are they so great? because they don't have a word for lying? Gulliver grows to love horses so much that he can't speak to his own family when he gets home -- I didn't buy it; I just think he's a misanthrope), and I suppose the most significant use of reading the
Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) writes towards the end of his book: ...an author perfectly blameless, against whom the tribe of answerers, considerers, observers, reflecters, detecters, remarkers, will never be able to find matter for exercising their talents. Had Swift known GR he would probably have included reviewers in the above sentence. This thought warns me against continuing any further with my review.But the Travels of Gullible Gulliver (1726) have made me laugh like no other book for a
Oh man.This book was sheer torture. The writing was dry and bland and boring. Swift had some really interesting ideas - An island of people no larger than your finger. Another island with people that are 60 feet tall. A floating island, an island of scientists, the island of Yahoos...but the execution was hard to appreciate. I came very close to putting this novel down many many times. I admit to not being a fan of early, victorian literature, but this was just painful.
I first read this in uni, in a much inferior editionbut what a feast of learnin' these Oxford editions often prove themselves to be, this one (with a 50pp introduction and 80pp of explanatory/contextual notes) surely being no exception. If you you, too want to (re-)visit Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and Houyhnhnmland, you could do with far worse a Baedeker than this, sirrah.(view spoiler)[Other thots:I really got him as a closet Jacobite in these pages, which I did not suspect before. Oh, and
This was my favorite required reading in high school (well, actually, probably tied with Animal Farm). It was a very pleasant and unexpected surprise. The reference points I had were cartoon retellings of this from my youth. I only really had an image of Gulliver vs the Lilliputians - and that was only the most basic "giant in a land full of very small people" storylines (well, they were trying to entertain children, so it doesn't have to get much more complex than that). But, the book is made
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