Gulliver’s Travels (Collins Classics)

Name: Gulliver’s Travels (Collins Classics)
Rating: 3 (18 reviews)

Jonathan Swift

Jun 2010 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

18 reviews

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'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.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary 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...

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18 reviews

A Google user

October 17, 2012

This is the edited version which removes all of the "suggestive" content from the book. Why would you call it a classic if it is the edited version? At least MENTION that somewhere instead of making me waste my money. I needed the whole book for university.

A Google user

November 24, 2014

So boring and so bad. Have to read this in two weeks for homework urgh!

2 people found this review helpful

Amrit Priya

April 20, 2016

Nice book

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About the author

Born in Dublin in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an satirist, essayist and Anglican cleric most famous for his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. Initially publishing anonymously or under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier, he made a name for himself for his deadpan and ironic style exemplified by his satirical essay, A Modest Proposal (1729). He died in 1745.

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