Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, published by Broadview Press in 2012, is a reprint edition comprising 454 pages. This narrative follows the gullible ship’s doctor, Lemuel Gulliver, as he embarks on extraordinary journeys through fantastical worlds inhabited by tiny people, giants, floating islands, and talking horses. While the story presents whimsical adventures, it also serves as a profound commentary on human follies, vulnerabilities, and self-destructive tendencies.
In this edition, readers will encounter the original, unmodernized text from the 1735 edition, allowing for an authentic experience of Swift’s work. The book includes historical appendices that provide context regarding the novel’s literary influences, as well as its political and religious allusions. This exploration of fiction and literary themes invites readers to engage with the complexities of Swift’s narrative and its relevance across different periods.
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In this narrative of the gullible ship’s doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literature an enduring model of mankind’s follies, vulnerabilities, vanities, and self-destructiveness. Dangerously topical in its own time and much debated ever since, Gulliver’s Travels is among those works of English literature that entrap and challenge readers in every period.
This edition uses the 1735 edition as the copy text, retaining the original, unmodernized text. Historical appendices provide a context for the novel’s literary models, scientific influences, and complex political and religious allusions.
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