Gulliver's Travels
by Swift, Jonathan. Introduction by Jacques Barzun
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0195199782
- ISBN 13
- 9780195199789
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, Toronto: Oxford. Good in Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0195199782 . Brown cloth with stained end otherwise VG. DJ has a spot on the front along with chipped and worn edges. First published in 1726, it was an instant best seller. George Orwell read it many times, stating impossible to grow tired of. ; 8vo .
Synopsis
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published.
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003064
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan. Introduction by Jacques Barzun
- Illustrator
- Warren Chappell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0195199782
- ISBN 13
- 9780195199789
- Publisher
- Oxford
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Classic, Fantasy, Literature, Literary;, Science, Fiction, Fantasy.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Fantasy & Sci-fi;
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