Gulliver's Travels
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
Jonathan "Isaac Bickerstaff" Swift a fost un scriitor englez, unul dintre cei mai importanți reprezentanți ai realismului din prima perioadă a iluminismului englez. Caracterizat printr-un stil șlefuit și o gândire dominată adesea de o aspră mizantropie, Swift a devenit cunoscut mai ales prin opera sa satirică "Gulliver's Travels".
