Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Popular Classics)

Swift, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0140620842 / ISBN 13: 9780140620849

Editore: Penguin Classics, 1994

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• Titolo: Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Popular Classics)
• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140620842
• ISBN 13: 9780140620849
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and clergyman, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), was born in Dublin to English parents. He embarked on a career as diplomatic secretary and became increasingly involved in politics. He published many satirical works of verse and prose, including 'A Tale of a Tub', 'A Modest Proposal', and 'Gulliver's Travels'.