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dc.contributor.authorSwift, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-07T20:44:51Z
dc.date.available2015-04-07T20:44:51Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citation: London: AN ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI,2008en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/491
dc.description.abstractRegarded as the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) intended this masterpiece, as he once wrote Alexander Pope, to "vex the world rather than divert it." Savagely ironic, it portrays man as foolish at best, and at worst, not much more than an ape. The direct and unadorned narrative describes four remarkable journies of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them, one to the land of Lilliput, where six-inch-high inhabitants bicker over trivialities; and another to Brobdingnag, a land where giants reduce man to insignificance. Written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail, this classic is diverse in its appeal: for children, it remains an enchanting fantasy. For adults, it is a witty parody of political life in Swift's time and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAN ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIESen_US
dc.subjectFiction in Englishen_US
dc.titleGulliver’s Travelsen_US
dc.typeBooken_US


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