A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man & society the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift&s Gulliver&s Travels is edited with an introduction & notes by Robert Demaria Jr Gulliver&s Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver a ship&s surgeon In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people & their city he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god However in Brobdingnag a land of giants tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation exhibited as a curiosity at markets & fairs In Laputa a flying island he encounters a society of speculators & projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan & calculate their country lies in ruins Gulliver&s final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire
- in contrast to the Yahoos filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans This text based on the first edition of 1726 reproduces all the original illustrations &

Includes:: an introduction by Robert Demaria Jr which discusses the ways Gulliver&s Travels has been interpreted since its first publication Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin Sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six Swift later attended Trinity College Dublin where he received his BA degree in 1686 He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language which stemmed from his criticism of Britain&s repressive colonial policies in Ireland Among Swift&s best known works is his ironic masterpiece &A Modest Proposal& (1729) & his novel Gulliver&s Travels (1726) If you enjoyed Gulliver&s Travels you might like HG Wells&s The Time Machine also available in Penguin Classics &A masterwork of irony that contains both a dark & bitter meaning & a joyous extraordinary creativity of imagination& Malcolm Bradbury


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The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver&s Travels by Jonathan Swift& Fifteen hundred of the Emperor&s largest horses each about four inches & an half high were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis which as I said was half a Mile distant&A savage & hilarious satire Gulliver&s Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked & adrift subject to bizarre & unnerving encounters with among others quarrelling Lilliputians philosophizing horses & the brutish Yahoo tribe that change his view of humanity
- & himself
- for ever Swift&s classic of 1726 portrays mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished magnified & finally bestial species presenting us with a comical yet uncompromising reflection of ourselves The Penguin English Library
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the worldliterally! Jack Black stars as Lemur Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilization known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the ipod! Actors Emily Blunt Jason Segel Jack Black Amanda Peet TJ Miller Chris O& Dowd Romany Malco Catherine Tate & James Corden Director Rob Letterman Certificate PGYear 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx) ...

Harper Collins 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 on the high seas Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour
- the giants of Brobdingnag the Houyhnhnms & the Yahoos In this scathing satire on the politics & morals of the 18th Century Swift&s condemnation of society & its institutions still resonates today
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the worldliterally! Jack Black stars as Lemur Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilization known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the ipod! ...

' Everyone should read Frances Hardinge Everyone Right now' Patrick Ness Chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time Gullstruck Island is a vibrant & exciting novel in a beautifully imagined setting by Frances Hardinge the Costa Award winning author The Lie Tree On Gullstruck Island the volcanoes quarrel beetles sing danger & occasionally a Lost is born In the village of the Hollow Beasts live two sisters Arilou is a Lost
- a child with the power to depart her body & mind-fly with the winds
- & Hathin is her helper Together they hide a dangerous secret until sinister events threaten to uncover it With a blue-skinned hunter on their trail & a dreadlocked warrior beside them they must escape or risk everything Can the fate of two children decide the future of Gullstruck Island?

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