Swift, J: Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (Buch)

Jonathan Swift: Swift, J: Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Swift, J: Gulliver's Travels

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Alma Books Ltd, 07/2016
Einband: Flexibler Einband
ISBN-13: 9781847495976
Bestellnummer: 2491511
Gewicht: 241 g
Maße: 198 x 126 mm
Stärke: 22 mm
Erscheinungstermin: 21.7.2016

Klappentext

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.

Biografie

Jonathan Swift, geb. 1667 in Dublin, 1689-94 Sekretär des Schriftstellers Sir William Temple in England, dann anglikanischer Geistlicher und von 1713 an Dekan von St. Patrick's in Dublin. Mit seinen beißenden Satiren kämpfte er gegen kirchliche und gesellschaftliche Mißstände. Er starb 1745.