Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift ; edited with an introduction by Claude Rawson and notes by Ian Higgins.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2005.Edition: New edDescription: lix, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780199536849 (pbk.)
- 0199536848 (pbk.)
- 823/.5 22
- PR3724 .G7 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlviii]-liii)
Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's travels -- Advertisement -- A letter from Capt. Gulliver to his cousin Sympson -- The publisher to the reader -- A voyage to Lilliput -- A voyage to Brobdingnag -- A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan -- A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
Gulliver's travels purports to be a travel book. It is a blend of fantasy and realism and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.
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