Gulliver's Travels

Informationen zum Autor Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and clergyman, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), was born in Dublin to English parents. He embarked on a career as diplomatic secretary and became increasingly involved in politics. He published many satirical works of verse and prose, including A Tale of a Tub , A Modest Proposal , and Gulliver's Travels. Klappentext Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) somehow managed to balance his role as Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin with being one of the most effective, disgusted and ferocious satirists in the English language. Gulliver's Travels is both a parody of what Swift viewed as the ridiculously contrived exotic travel genre pioneered by writers such as Captain William Dampier and an incomparably vivid and funny narrative that lies at the very heart of early English fiction. Zusammenfassung Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for ever.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Swift
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780141198989
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119898-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The Penguin English Library; Penguin Classics; The Penguin English Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Fantasy / General, FICTION / Satire, Classic fiction: general and literary