Gulliver's Travels

by Swift, Jonathan | Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published 21/07/2016 by Alma Books Ltd (Alma Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Alma Classics Evergreens series
Paperback | 256 pages
193 x 121 x 20mm | 264g

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses.

Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature.