Gulliver's Travels (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Author(s): Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)

Novel

In this narrative of the gullible ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literature an enduring model of mankind's follies, vulnerabilities, vanities, and self-destructiveness. Dangerously topical in its own time and much debated ever since, Gulliver's Travelsis among those works of English literature that entrap and challenge readers in every period.


This edition uses the 1735 edition as the copy text, retaining the original, unmodernized text. Historical appendices provide a context for the novel's literary models, scientific influences, and complex political and religious allusions.


Product Information

Jonathan Swift's inimitable satire accompanied by the timeless illustrations of Arthur Rackham

Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. He spent most of his childhood in Ireland until, aged twenty-one, he moved to England, where he found employment as secretary to the diplomat Sir William Temple. On Temple's death in 1699, Swift returned to Dublin to pursue a career in the Church. By this time he was also publishing in a variety of genres, and between 1704 and 1729 he produced a string of brilliant satires, of which Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal are the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and he was buried there upon his death in 1745.

General Fields

  • : 9781509843213
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Campbell Books Ltd
  • : 0.226796
  • : September 2017
  • : 15.00 cmmm X 9.40 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : December 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
  • : Hardback
  • : New Edition
  • : English
  • : 741.5/973
  • : 408