Jonathan Swift, Arthur Rackham, Barry
Gulliver's Travels -Illustrated: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
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( Feb. 27, 2019)
About the Series “Swift’s Notable Works”
VOLUME 1. A Tale of a Tub (With Illustrations from the 1710 ed. ( Woodcuts /. WOTTON) and 1811 ed. (London, Pub by T. Tegg)
VOLUME 2. Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the World (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham)
VOLUME 3. A Modest Proposal / Drapier's Letters (Annotated By Swift by Leslie Stephen)
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (which is the full title), 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 was an immediate success. John Gay remarked "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery".
In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gulliver’s Travels is listed, as "a satirical masterpiece".
VOLUME 1. A Tale of a Tub (With Illustrations from the 1710 ed. ( Woodcuts /. WOTTON) and 1811 ed. (London, Pub by T. Tegg)
VOLUME 2. Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the World (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham)
VOLUME 3. A Modest Proposal / Drapier's Letters (Annotated By Swift by Leslie Stephen)
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (which is the full title), 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 was an immediate success. John Gay remarked "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery".
In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gulliver’s Travels is listed, as "a satirical masterpiece".
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