Gulliver's Travels
By: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: Transatlantic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amersham, Bucks, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781908533098
Subjects: Imaginary Voyages; Travelers; Early works to 1800; Fiction
Description: Ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver is stranded on the island of Lilliput after his boat founders. In the first of many weird and wonderful adventures he meets a diminutive people prepared to wage war over the correct way to crack an egg. The castaway also visits a land full of giants, with wasps the size of partridges; a floating island where the best brains are engaged in trying to extract sunshine from cucumbers; and a land of civilized, rational-minded horses who show up the repulsive, humanlike Yahoos in a very bad light. Both a children's fantasy classic and a scabrous satire on politicians, philosophers, scientists -- indeed, humanity itself -- Gulliver's Travels is as fresh, amusing and bitingly savage today as it was when published to wide acclaim almost three centuries ago. -- from publisher.