Gulliver's Travels (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

gulliver's Travels , By Jonathan Swift, Is Part Of The barnes & Noble Classics series, Which Offers Quality Editions At Affordable Prices To The Student And The General Reader, Including New Scholarship, Thoughtful Design, And Pages Of Carefully Crafted Extras. Here Are Some Of The Remarkable Features Of barnes & Noble Classics : new Introductions Commissioned From Today's Top Writers And Scholars biographies Of The Authors chronologies Of Contemporary Historical, Biographical, And Cultural Events footnotes And Endnotes selective Discussions Of Imitations, Parodies, Poems, Books, Plays, Paintings, Operas, Statuary, And Films Inspired By The Work comments By Other Famous Authors study Questions To Challenge The Reader's Viewpoints And Expectations bibliographies For Further Reading indices & Glossaries, When Appropriate all Editions Are Beautifully Designed And Are Printed To Superior Specifications; Some Include Illustrations Of Historical Interest. barnes & Noble Classics pulls Together A Constellation Of Influences—biographical, Historical, And Literary—to Enrich Each Reader's Understanding Of These Enduring Works. considered The Greatest Satire Ever Written In English, Jonathan Swift’s gulliver’s Travels Chronicles The Fantastic Voyages Of Lemuel Gulliver, Principally To Four Marvelous Realms: Lilliput, Where The People Are Six Inches Tall; Brobdingnag, A Land Inhabited By Giants; Laputa, A Wondrous Flying Island; And A Country Where The Houyhnhnms, A Race Of Intelligent Horses, Are Served By Savage Humanoid Creatures Called Yahoos. beneath The Surface Of This Enchanting Fantasy Lurks A Devastating Critique Of Human Malevolence, Stupidity, Greed, Vanity, And Short-sightedness. A Brilliant Combination Of Adventure, Humor, And Philosophy, gulliver’s Travels Is One Of Literature’s Most Durable Masterpieces. michael Seidel Is Jesse And George Siegel Professor In The Humanities At Columbia University. He Has Written Widely On Eighteenth-century Literature. His Books Include satiric Inheritance: Rabelais To Sterne (1979), exile And The Narrative Imagination (1986), And robinson Crusoe: Island Myths And The Novel (1991). A parody of traveler’s tales and a satire of human nature, “Gulliver’s Travels” is Jonathan Swift’s most famous work which was first published in 1726. An immensely popular tale ever since its original publication, “Gulliver’s Travels” is the story of its titular character, Lemuel Gulliver, a man who loves to travel. A series of four journeys are detailed in which Gulliver finds himself in a number of amusing and precarious situations. In the first voyage, Gulliver is imprisoned by a race of tiny people, the Lilliputians, when following a shipwreck he is washed upon the shores of their island country. In his second voyage Gulliver finds himself abandoned in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, where he is exhibited for their amusement. In his third voyage, Gulliver once again finds himself marooned; fortunately he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics. He subsequently travels to the surrounding lands of Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. Finally in his last voyage, when he is set adrift by a mutinous crew, he finds himself in the curious Country of the Houyhnhnms. Through the various experiences of Gulliver, Swift brilliantly satirizes the political and cultural environment of his time in addition to creating a lasting and enchanting tale of fantasy. This edition is illustrated by Milo Winter and includes an introduction by George R. Dennis. Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses