(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Jonathan Swift
"Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."
Lemuel Gulliver is a naïve ship's surgeon who believes people are heroes at heart. Four extraordinary voyages disabuse him of this conviction: among six-inch Lilliputians who wage wars over which end to crack an egg; among giants who examine him under a magnifying glass and find humanity wanting; among flying-island scientists whose theories are brilliant and useless; and among rational horses who regard the brutish Yahoos — their word for humans — with undisguised contempt.
Published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels is the most devastating satirical novel in the English language — one with a remarkable double life: children can read it as pure adventure, adults recognise it as tragedy. Swift's genius is to render the absurd with perfect internal logic, so that each new world becomes a sharper mirror of the one Gulliver left behind. A book that is just as unsettling today as it was three centuries ago.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Swift's original, unabridged text — a masterwork for any discerning library.
