GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

La plus célèbre des parodies des journaux de voyages du XVIIIe siècle.

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians.

But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses.

Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature.

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

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - 9780199536849 - 8.90€