Guliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift, Thomas Morten (Illustrator)

Leather spine with decorative gilt design and lettering on spine

Genres: Classics, Fiction

337 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".

Reviews

[Hamta · Rating 4 out of 5]

وقتی شروعش کردم مطمئن نبودم قراره تمومش کنم یا نه ولی نویسنده کارش رو درست انجام داده بود، از بیان و لحن زیرپوستی نویسنده برای انتقاد و بیان شرایط خیلی لذت بردم فصل چهار با اختلاف عمیق ترین و مورد پسندترین فصل کتاب واسم بود و واقعا درک میکردم نویسنده رو که دیگه نخواد برگرده به خونه و اهالی اون منطقه رو ترجیح بده...

[Leanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got the ick when he said that 12 was a good age for girls to get married

[nanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

read for gwf, enjoyed it

really liked the physical representation of him looking down on the liliputians, up at the brobdingnags, and on equal grounds with the houyhnhnms, but still being considers more like the lesser yahoo that he strives to become like the houyhnhnms.

he has no spine, no will of his own, susceptible to each place he visits, their ways and methods, molding and shaping him each way he was pulled. the age of enlightenment was well on its way, but the author had long before lost and isolated himself. his knowledge and experience was no longer able to contribute to the reason and absolute truth he so craves.

[Md. Foysal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quinbus Flestrin!

[Joey Musselman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun book

[Camron · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was honestly baffled by how much I enjoyed this especially the end. The middle gets quite repetitive but it pays off and wraps itself up nicely as an incredible satirical work.

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

die Aussprache habe ich auch in meinem Kopf nicht hinbekommen, aber ich mochte sehr, dass die Kapitel pro Reise waren und so hatte man gute Breaks

[Isaac Parkinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

War, huh, what is it good for ?