Gulliver's Travels - Couverture souple

Swift, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955960215 ISBN 13 : 9780955960215

Editeur : Capuchin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms, such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier, or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire; the Horatian and Juvenalian style. He is regarded as one of the most influential political writers of his time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Capuchin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955960215
• ISBN 13: 9780955960215
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne