Gulliver's travels
Subtitle: based on the 1726 text : contexts, criticism
By: Jonathan Swift ; edited by Albert J. Rivero.
Contributors: Rivero, Albert J., 1953-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745; Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800; Imaginary societies -- Early works to 1800; Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Voyages, Imaginary -- History and criticism; Satire, English -- History and criticism; Travelers in literature; Travelers -- Fiction
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Fiction.
Description: "Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself in Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose six-inch height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour.".

"Although Gulliver's journeys take us to strange and wonderful places, it is impossible to ignore the reflections of ourselves with which Swift peoples his realms, where humankind is seen in a satirical hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species. With its wild distortions, optical illusions and undertones of madness and the grotesque, Gulliver's Travels defies our expectations of a conventional traveller's tale.

It is in fact a brillantly and rudelly subversive book."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-511).