Gulliver's Travels - Couverture souple

Swift, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816774773 ISBN 13 : 9780816774777

Editeur : Troll Communications Llc, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Jonathan Swift

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship
By turns a children's fantasy and a social satire for adults, Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular adventure tales of all time. "A Modest Proposal," also an imaginative, enduring work, is political lampoonery at its finest.
This Enriched Classic Edition includes:
• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson

Présentation de l'éditeur :

First published in 1726, 'Gulliver's Travels' was an instant sensation and sold out its first print run in less than a week. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Lemuel Gulliver, 'first a surgeon, then a captain of several ships', is washed ashore after a shipwreck and awakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of people less than six inches tall, on the island of Lilliput. His adventures there, subsequent escape and further voyages are both a satire on human nature and the politics of the time, and a parody of the literary sub-genre of 'traveller s tales'. 'A Modest Proposal', published three years later, is Swift s classic satirical essay purporting to suggest that the impoverished Irish might ease their troubles by selling their children as food to the rich. It is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the English language. Published together here are two of the greatest pieces of writing by the foremost prose satirist in the history English literature, with a new and incisive foreword by Jeremy Paxman.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Troll Communications Llc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0816774773
• ISBN 13: 9780816774777
• Reliure: Broché