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Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Gulliver's Travels narrates the extraordinary journeys of Lemuel Gulliver to four fantastical lands: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms. Swift skilfully blends fantasy and realism, using Gulliver's encounters to create a tale that is at once hilarious, frightening, and profoundly satirical.
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Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.

In these words, Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whose inventiveness is self-evident? Gulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.

A consummately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift plays tricks on us, and delivers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.

This new edition includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years, Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780199536849

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 June 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Illustration: original frontispiece; 5 halftones & 3 maps

Contributors:

  • Edited by Claude Rawson
  • Edited by Ian Higgins
  • Edited by Claude Rawson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 297g

Pages: 432

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Classic Fiction Classic General Fiction Fiction General Fiction Jonathan Swift Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins are General Editors of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift in 16 volumes. Claude Rawson has written widely about satire and the Augustan period. He has edited Fielding's Jonathan Wild for OWC and is the author of God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 (OUP, 2001).

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