All Formats & Editions

"Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels , and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel . "Criticism"... Read Full Overview

Read by children as an adventure story and by adults as a devastating satire of society, Gulliver and his four journeys make for a fascinating blend of travelogue, realism, symbolism, and fantastic voyage - all with a serious philosophical intent.

At once satiric and magical, rich in philosophy and astonishing adventure, Gulliver s Travels transports children into worlds unknown. The entire voyage is seen through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship s surgeon whose amazing account begins with a shipwreck on the high seas... Read Full Overview

In Gulliver's Travels , the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked... Read Full Overview

In Gulliver's Travels , the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked... Read Full Overview

It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.

"Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels,... Read Full Overview

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

A full-color illustrated edition of one of
the world's best loved stories, Gulliver's Travels,
illustrated by world-renowned illustrator Robert Ingpen.

Los viajes de Gulliver es la historia de la traves a comprendida por el capit n Lemuel Gulliver a trav s de diversas naciones remotas. En ellas encuentra mundos insospechados y fant sticos habitados por seres, aunque inteligentes, a su manera monstruosos y de costumbres extra... Read Full Overview

In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked... Read Full Overview

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'

Shipwrecked... Read Full 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 a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both... Read Full Overview

Gulliver's misadventures begin when he is first shipwrecked, then abandoned, then attacked by strangers, then attacked by his own crew. Gulliver's attitude hardens as the book progresses. Throughout, Gulliver is presented as being gullible; he believes what he is told, never... Read Full Overview

Jonathan Swift's satire on human nature and social behaviour remains as relevant today as it was over 300 years ago. A stunning new addition to the Flame Tree Collectable Classics.

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to
create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and
the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21st
Century technology. With wonderfully detailed covers, sparkling... Read Full Overview

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly "modern" protagonist, Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment, from its worship of science to its... Read Full Overview

El gran cl?sico de la literatura en una nueva edici?n adaptada e ilustrada.