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Gulliver's Travels (Vintage Classics)
Jonathan Swift
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Description for Gulliver's Travels (Vintage Classics)
Paperback. In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
'Among the six indispensable books in world literature' George Orwell
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Product Details
Publisher
Random House UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099512059
SKU
V9780099512059
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About Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born on 30th November 1667 in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College in that city and Oxford University. He was a cousin of John Dryden. Swift's father was a lawyer who had gone to Ireland after the Restoration, but he died before his son's birth. After becoming secretary to Sir William Temple in England, Swift returned to ... Read more
Reviews for Gulliver's Travels (Vintage Classics)
Swift's world-famous satire was an instant bestseller...his vision is dark, often verging on the obscene
Robert McCrum
Guardian
It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery
John Gay (author of The Beggar's Opera) It has entered the iconography of western culture as perhaps no other single novel, giving words to the English language ... Read more
Robert McCrum
Guardian
It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery
John Gay (author of The Beggar's Opera) It has entered the iconography of western culture as perhaps no other single novel, giving words to the English language ... Read more