Gulliver's Travels - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499193424 ISBN 13: 9781499193428

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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Gulliver's Travels, officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature.

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Review

"Gulliver's Travels is a timeless work, but Allan Ingram's edition reminds us that it's a timely one, too. His introduction, notes, and appendices put the eighteenth century's greatest satire in a wide variety of contexts--biographical, historical, political, scientific, and literary--giving us an ideal edition for classroom use. No edition does a better job of explaining Swift's masterpiece as a product of its age."--Jack Lynch, Rutgers University

"This new edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels provides both first-time and return readers with a well-constructed framework within which to place a familiar work. Allan Ingram's engaging introduction deftly combines a summary of contemporary controversies over politics, religion, learning, science, and Ireland, with a summary of Swift's life and a history of the composition, publication, and critical reception of the Travels. The footnotes to the text anticipate the kinds of knowledge a twenty-first-century reader might lack: the outmoded usage of a single word or the identity of an individual, as well as references to broader issues and ideas. Ingram observes that Swift 'asks the kinds of questions of his readers to which we have few answers.' His edition will enable readers to carry on the debate about those questions."--Melinda Alliker Rabb, Brown University

About the Author

Jonathan Swift Detail of a portrait of Jonathan Swift directed by Charles Jervas (1718). Other key data names MB Draper, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff Activities priest, writer, pamphleteer Born November 30, 1667 Dublin (Ireland) Death October 19, 1745 (77 years) Dublin (Ireland) Writing language English major works Letters from the clothier, (1724) Gulliver's Travels (1726) Modest Proposal (1729) change Jonathan Swift, born November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, and died October 19, 1745 in the same city is a writer, satirist, essayist, pamphleteer Anglo-Irish politics. [1] He is also a poet and cleric, and as he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. He is famous for writing Gulliver's Travels. Swift is probably the greatest satirist in prose in the English language. He published his works by using pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff and MB Draper, or even anonymously. Finally, it is known to be a master of two styles of satire, satire and horacienne juv�nalienne satire. He is a member of the Scriblerus Club.

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