Penguin English Library Gulliver's Travels (The Penguin English Library) Jonatha

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-04-26 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift.Fifteen hundred of the Emperors largest horses. each about four inches and an half high. were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis. which. as I said. was half a Mile distantA savage and hilarious satire. Gullivers Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift. subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with. among others. quarrelling Lilliputians. philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe. that change his view of humanity - and himself - for ever. Swifts classic of 1726 portrays mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished. magnified and finally bestial species. presenting us with a comical yet uncompromising reflection of ourselves . The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the be...