Guliver’s Travels

Lemuel Gulliver's voyages take him among societies whose scale and customs make his own look absurd, which is exactly what Jonathan Swift intended when he wrote the book in the eighteenth century. Read as adventure it moves briskly from one strange landfall to the next; read as satire it turns a cold eye on politics, scholarship, vanity and national pride. That double life is why the novel survives on school syllabuses and general reading lists alike, and why parts of it circulate as children's stories while the whole remains pointed adult work. Things to expect: • Jonathan Swift's prose satire in its familiar voyage structure • Encounters with civilisations built on unfamiliar proportions and rules • Commentary on human institutions running beneath the adventure • A standard English-language edition for general and academic reading For students of English literature, classics readers and anyone returning to a book first met in childhood. Stocked by Boipoka.