Penguin Classics presents Jonathan Swift's inventive classic, Gulliver's Travels, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Hugh Laurie, star of the hit TV series House. 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant' A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject ...
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Penguin Classics presents Jonathan Swift's inventive classic, Gulliver's Travels, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Hugh Laurie, star of the hit TV series House. 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant' A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophising horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for ever. Swift's classic of 1726 portrays mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with a comical yet uncompromising reflection of ourselves. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Revised snd slightly abridged for readers of our times. 1977 Printing of this 1947 Edition, beautifully illustrated by Aldren Watson in color and black and white. Originally Published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels is the best-known title of Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver. a satire masterpiece written in the form of a journal by Jonathan Swift(1667-1745). It is a bitter satire, a tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. It appeals to younger reader's as a fantastic story of the Land of the Lilliput where people are 6 inches high and the Land of the Brobdingnag where the people are 60 feet high. Beneath the surface of this fantasy, is a devastating critique of human malevolence, stupidity, greed, vanity and short-sightedness. A brilliant combination of adventure, humor and philosophy. 18th century literature. Handsome binding in illustrated tan cloth with red ships. spine cloth decorated and with red title panel, in near fine condition. Illustrated endpapers. Internals are in Fine Condition----clean, unmarked, no creases, gift inscription on endpaper. 306 pages. 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall. Grosset & Dunlap, New York.
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Illustrated by Aldren Watson. Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 0448058103. 8vo 8"-9" tall; Color Illustrations; Series: Barnes and Noble Classics Series; 306 pages; Decorative hard cover boards with orange ships with sails on front and back. Spine is dark blue with orange title box with orange lettering. Illustration above the title box. Spine is straight, binding is tight. Pages are unmarked and clean and remain bright. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear/rubbing. No tears or creasing.
I was under the impression that the book was the complete unabridged version and I was sent a child's copy. VERY DISAPPOINTING!
Gedinho
Apr 18, 2010
Greatest Satire Ever Written
Once again I'm amazed to find this book described as 'childrens book'.George Orwell described it as the greatest satire ever written(I think that was his wording)and I,in my much humbler opinion would agree.Admittedly I didn't immediately understand all the references Swift was alluding to,I had to do some further research.As far as I understand it's not far off a polemic on the England of Swift's time,he pokes fun at religion,history,research,law,the monarchy and many other facets of english life.And when he meets the Houyhnhnms,it's an absolute delight,especially to a fellow Irishman....sometimes even I can smell the foul,putrid stench of the brutish Yahoos(the english!).A really beautiful book and a joy to read.
