Gulliver’s Travels (Collins Classics)

Four voyages take a ship's surgeon to societies that look absurd until the resemblance to his own becomes obvious. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published in the eighteenth century and works on two levels at once, as an adventure story of strange lands and as a sustained satire on politics, scholarship and human vanity. Lemuel Gulliver narrates each voyage plainly, which is what makes the satire bite, and readers can take the book as straightforward fantasy or as the argument Swift intended. Features to note: • All four voyages in the Collins Classics paperback series • Satire aimed at government, learning and human self regard • A narrative that works for young readers and for close study • A standard text for courses on eighteenth century literature Suited to students, satire readers and collectors of English classics, published in Collins Classics and available at Boipoka.