Books with title Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels for Kids is a crisp new retelling of Johnathan Swift’s classic work. Acclaimed author Luke Hayes makes the entire strange and gripping tale available for young readers. First, we’re transported to Lilliput, where folks are only a few inches tall and where Gulliver puts out a fire in a most unusual way. Then to Brobdingnag, where our hero finds himself in a land of giants. More adventures follow: flying islands, wacky inventions, mad scientists, and mysterious magicians. Finally, Gulliver arrives at the country where horses rule, where humans are beastly Yahoos and where the humane values of the book finally become clear.The Luke Hayes version retains all of Swift’s imaginative flights and wry humor. A natural storyteller, Hayes unfolds the tale in easy-to-read dialogue and fast-paced prose, remaining faithful to the story’s tone and essence.Gulliver’s Travels for Kids will enable 8- to 12-year-old readers to enjoy this timeless classic in a hip, cool and highly enjoyable form. It makes great bedtime reading for younger children, too.

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift’s savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels follows several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps, repeatedly ends up on several uncharted islands among people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies. Somehow, Gulliver always manages return home before setting out again on a new voyage. Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels as a parody of voyage literature and to attack what he considered people's most conspicuous vices. (non illustrated)

Enjoy an enduringly popular classic story in a colorful graphic edition. Abridged for fast-paced reading, this book features illustrations that vividly tell the tale. The lone survivor of a shipwreck, Dr. Lemuel Gulliver wakes up to find himself tied down to the ground and surrounded by tiny people. But that’s just the beginning of the amazing travels to incredible places you’ll share with Gulliver . . .

Gulliver's Travels for Kids is a wonderful new retelling of Johnathan Swift's classic work. Acclaimed author Luke Hayes makes the entire strange and gripping tale available for young readers. This version retains all of Swift's imaginative flights and wry humor. A natural storyteller, Hayes unfolds the tale in easy-to-read dialogue and fast-paced prose, remaining faithful to the story's tone and essence. Gulliver's Travels for Kids will enable readers aged 8 to 12 to enjoy this timeless classic in a hip, cool and enjoyable form. It makes great bedtime reading for younger children, too.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour – the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.

Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. He himself claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." The travel begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver gives a brief outline of his life and history before his voyages. During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches tall, who are inhabitants of the island country of Lilliput. After giving assurances of his good behaviour, he is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favourite of the Lilliput Court...

A re-telling of the classic Jonathan Swift story told for children growing in reading confidence and ability. Gulliver sets off on the adventure of a lifetime - and meets miniature people, civil war and a price upon his head. Will he make it back in one piece? Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.