The Works of Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Vintage Antique Hardcover Book

Title: The Works of Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift

Year: 1932

Publisher: Black's Readers Service Company

Format: Hardcover / Hardback

Vintage: Yes

Condition: 1932. Book is in good to very good shape with some fading to spine and light oil stains to front cover. Light damage to front endpaper where address sticker was removed. No markings. NOT ex library or remaindered. SHIPS IN A BOX! Packaged with care.

Genre: Classic Literature; Best Books / Novels of All Time; Literary Classics

Book Summary: 

Regarded as the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) intended this masterpiece, as he once wrote Alexander Pope, to "vex the world rather than divert it." Savagely ironic, it portrays man as foolish at best, and at worst, not much more than an ape.
The direct and unadorned narrative describes four remarkable journies of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them, one to the land of Lilliput, where six-inch-high inhabitants bicker over trivialities; and another to Brobdingnag, a land where giants reduce man to insignificance.
Written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail, this classic is diverse in its appeal: for children, it remains an enchanting fantasy. For adults, it is a witty parody of political life in Swift's time and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England.