a ISBN 978-01-9953684-9

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number PR3724

b Item number .G7 2008

a Personal name Swift, Jonathan,

d Dates associated with a name 1667-1745.

a Title Gulliver's travels /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Jonathan Swift ; edited with an introduction by Claude Rawson and notes by Ian Higgins.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Oxford :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2008.

a Extent lix, 362 p. :

b Other physical details ill., maps ;

c Dimensions 20 cm.

a Series statement Oxford world's classics

a General note Previously published: 2005.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references.

a Summary, etc In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition. The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader's uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's role-playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Voyages, Imaginary

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Travelers

a Personal name Rawson, Claude Julien.

a Personal name Higgins, Ian,

d Dates associated with a name 1959-

a Uniform title Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)