Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
By Jonathan Swift.
Description
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and societyGulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on e...
ISBN(s)
0141439491, 9780141439495
