Gulliver's Travels
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels - London Penguin Classics 2016 - 336
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. 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.
9780143426974
Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)
Travelers
Voyages, Imaginary
Lilliput (Imaginary place)
823.5 SWI
Gulliver's Travels - London Penguin Classics 2016 - 336
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. 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.
9780143426974
Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)
Travelers
Voyages, Imaginary
Lilliput (Imaginary place)
823.5 SWI
