Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)

by Jonathan Swift

Overview

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
The book became popular as soon as it was published (John Gay said in a 1726 letter to Swift that "it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery"; since then, it has never been out of print. It has inspired numerous on-screen versions as well as other retellings of the story and gave the English language words like "Yahoo" and "Lillipution".

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012883469
Publisher:	Revenant
Publication date:	06/21/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	721 KB

About the Author

Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. The particularly savage satire of "A Modest Proposal" resulted in any particularly over-the-top satire since being called "Swiftian".