Swift: Gulliver's Travels (Landmarks of World Literature) [Hardcover]

Howard Erskine-Hill (Author)

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Series: Landmarks of World Literature | Publication Date: July 30, 1993

This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading.

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Book Description

Providing a original impartial account of the world-famous satire, this new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, four-part structure, narrative strategy and prose style.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 126 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 30, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521329345
• ISBN-13: 978-0521329347
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,956,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm learning, February 23, 2008

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This review is from: Swift: Gulliver's Travels (Landmarks of World Literature) (Paperback)

Don't misunderstand, the book is great, so was the last book with the same title "Gullivers Travels. However both are what is called "Case books", or a critique of the work, or a landmark of the work describing a number of critics evaluating the work.What I wanted was THE BOOK "Gullivers Travels". Hopefully, when I reorder, I will finally get THE book.I'm learning.

4.0 out of 5 stars book is hillarious i love swift's satirism on politics!!!!!, March 6, 1999

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This review is from: Swift: Gulliver's Travels (Landmarks of World Literature) (Hardcover)

Jonathan Swift is hillarious!! He is true to his words and expresses his beliefs about politics through gulliver. i thought the book was very good but kind of hard to follow at times. i liked the way swift tied in all of gulliver's travels, and also how swift managed to satire politics and religion and many other things of humanity. he is true to his words and i agree with many of the things that swift said in his book. for example when the Lilliputians are fighting because of which side of the egg to break off, i saw the relation to government and real wars right away. i would reccommend this book to anyone who has not read it. it is a very good look at society and governments.