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OverviewJonathan Swift's masterpiece is the finest satire in the English language. Lemuel Gulliver's adventures with the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput and the giants of Brobdingnag are familiar from modern abridged adaptations, but the scientists and philosophers of Laputa, the intelligent, horselike Houyhnhnms and the bestial Yahoos provide further opportunities for Swift to satirise society in a manner just as relevant today as it was in the eighteenth century. lllustrated by Arthur Rackham, with an afterword by Henry Hitchings. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan Swift , Henry HitchinsPublisher: Pan Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library Edition: Main Market Ed. Dimensions: Width: 10.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 15.70cm Weight: 0.232kg ISBN: 9781904633716ISBN 10: 1904633714 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 01 August 2004 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. Although he spent most of his childhood in Ireland, he considered himself English, and, aged twenty-one, 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 is the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; he was buried there when he died in 1745. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |