Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Irish writer and clergyman known for his satirical works that critiqued society and politics. His most famous work, "Gulliver's Travels," is a biting satire on human nature and the flaws of society. Swift's writing is characterized by wit, irony, and a keen eye for social commentary. He was a master of the satire genre, using humor and exaggeration to shed light on the absurdities of his time. Swift's contributions to literature have had a lasting impact on the genre of satire, influencing countless writers and thinkers.
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