About this title: In Jonathan Swift's bitter, witty, and utterly brilliant satire of the state of England in the early 18th century, his hero, Lemuel Gulliver (the epitome of the average man), becomes, as he travels, increasingly frustrated by the corruption and irrationality of the human race. His sea voyage takes him first to Lilliput, where he is first exploited by its tiny citizens and then condemned as a traitor. Then he lands in Brobdingnag, to whom he is the Lilliputian; he is repulsed by the size, grossness, and stupidity of the giants who capture him. His third voyage is to Laputa, where Swift ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780553212327ISBN:055321232X
Description: Very Good. Light wear at cover corners/edges & crease top-front from reading. Front lower corner creased-splitting. Pp. 19-42 wrinkled--possible water damage. Pages clean & spine tight. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. Complete and Unabridged. 535 pages. cover worn and soiled, edges worn, spine creased, hinges scuffed, pages yellowed with age. Binding intact, Contains: Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of Books, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanica; Operation of the Spirit, The Abolishing of Christianity in England, The Bickerstaff Papers, and more. Chronology and selected bibliography listed in back. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553212327ISBN:055321232X
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780553212327ISBN:055321232X
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Modern Library
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good. ---Interior clean and tight. Cover has only light signs of wear. Modern Library College editions. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Modern Library
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good. ---550 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The soft cover has normal signs of use w/ light bowing. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780553212327ISBN:055321232X
Description: Very Good. Slight cover wear with minor scuffing to edges. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Some wear as might be expected. xxviii, 564 p. : maps, facsims.; 21 cm. Includes: Maps, Facsimiles. Bibliography: p. 563-564. read more
Description: A good reading copy only. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. Wear to cover. Staining and name on page edges. -, Trade PaperBack, Good / read more
"Gulliver's Travels recounts the adventures of Lemeul Gulliver, a seafarer. Written by the renowned satirist Jonathan Swift, the tale of adventure brings Gulliver to explore several different islands. His first shipwreck lands Gulliver on the island of Lilliput, where all the inhabitants are a twelfth of his size. After touring the country, which Gulliver finds extremely similar to his native England, Gulliver wins the Lilliputian's war against the natives of the neighboring island, Blefuscu. He is then exiled since he refuses to aid Lilliput in colonizing Blefuscu. A few months after returning home, Gulliver finds himself marooned on the island of Brobdingnag, where all the inhabitants are twelve times his size. Gulliver is treated as a marvel, first exhibited as a rarity show and then offered a permanent residence in the royal palace. After several unfortunate incidents, Gulliver is dropped into the sea by a huge seagull and rescued by his countrymen. On his next journey, Gulliver is shipwrecked by pirates, then rescued from a deserted island by the floating Laputa kingdom, which was deserted by sense. The Laputans spend their entire lives solving complex but inconsequential academic problems, and thus Gulliver soon continued his journey to Japan homeward to England. Gulliver's final journey found himself in the country of Houyhnhnms, or horses. He finds that yahoos, or primitive humans without reason, are ruled and cared for by sensible horses. Following several years of living with the horses, Gulliver is exiled returns to England becomes a recluse from his family. Enjoyment of Jonathan Swift's satire began when I read A Modest Proposal, which suggested cannibalism as a solution to Europe's overpopulation and poverty. Satire is rife throughout Gulliver's Travels, primarily aimed at England's empirical government in Lilliput and the land of Brobdingnag. The floating island of Laputa criticizes England's Royal Society, where study and experiment yielded no practical results. The savagery of the human race is subtly demonstrated in Gulliver's visitation of the Houyhnhnms, where no one lies and death is another journey in life. In each period of Gulliver's adventures, Swift addresses social ills that are predominant in his time and ours."
"The first time I ever read of Gulliver, I was in fifth grade and this was on of the book I read in Pakistan. However, I only read his travel to the Lilliputian and had no idea that he kept on traveling to other weird villages. When I started reading this book, it seemed interesting at first but then the idea of a person going to so many villages and always being the outcast seemed boring. As I was reading the book, it really felt like it was more of a question on where he truly belongs in society. So the book goes as follows, the protagonist which is Lemuel Gulliver' is ship wrecked and ends up in the town of Lilliput where he is gathered by hundreds of little Lilliputians who at first dislike him but eventually start to accept him as a member in society. He keeps traveling to the Brobdignagians where every one is hug and he remains the outcast. He keeps traveling to the towns of Houhynhyns where everyone is massive and the same idea of him being the outcast continues throughout the story. Another twist is that they are all horses which made me just finish the book really quickly because by this time I was really bored. He then goes to his family and probably wishes to travel more in the future.
The question I kept asking myself throughout the book was that why would someone leave their family and go to towns where he is an outcast and probably has the danger of being killed by whoever lives their. Some people might be interested with that idea but I am not. I would definitely not recommend this to anyone because I myself hated the book. The character claims himself to be really smart that he is able to protect himself from others. So I would take this time to say to everyone to not this book. Other than that, I just remembered why I hated 5th grade so much."
"Hmmmmm, I'd recommend an abridged version of this book. He was unnecessarily crude and could have got his point across without that. It was definitely an interesting book with food for thought. What I learned...It's true, humans are pretty rank. However, those pesky emotions which drive some of our sins, are God-given, and we need to learn to do the right thing in the face of temptation from other corrupt humans. Of course it would be easier to always do the right thing (and seemingly be happier) if we were alone on a deserted island. However, we were put here with others like us. Also, I believe to really be honorable, we actually need the other fallible creatures around us and our emotions. I don't think the houynhms (or however you spell it) are all they are cracked up to be and would not want to live in a society void of feeling. Actually I think their absence of feelings leads them to do the less honorable thing on some occasions. I also agree with the end of the book which points out the absurdity of pride in one such as ourselves."
"Gulliver's Travels is a mythical book, that has Gulliver setting sail to go to different places. It is interesting to see how he copes with these situations and encounters, weather it be the finger sized Lilliputians or the giants people of Brobdingnag. Some of the adventures he goes on has him enslaved or playing music for the royal family of Brobdingnag. It gives quite an array of obsticals and events that Gulliver has to overcome, and since the book had been written in Gulliver's first person point of view it allows the reader to see deeper into the situation. However, even though it is in first person, the author, Jonathan Swift, does not give too much insight to what or how Gulliver is feeling emotionally. I actually enjoyed this book and im not much of a fantasy/mythical book reader. but it was a nice change up from sports and science fiction books. The one thing that really intrigued me about this book was the charactor traits given to Gulliver by Swift. Gulliver is unable to give up and always makes it back to England his homeland. This is an excellent book and i recommend it to, ironically, those who don't think that you will like it."
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