{"product_id":"gullivers-travels","title":"Gulliver's Travels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published anonymously in 1726 under the title \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jonathan Swift’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents itself as the extraordinary travel journal of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon whose voyages carry him from the miniature kingdom of Lilliput to the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag, and onwards to stranger territories still. Each new land reveals a society governed by its own peculiar customs, ambitions and absurdities, offering Swift a fresh perspective from which to expose the vanities and contradictions of his own world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeneath its inventive adventures lies one of literature’s sharpest works of satire: a searching examination of political power, scientific pretension, religious conflict and the frailties of human nature. Swift’s comic precision and unsettling vision make the book at once a brilliant entertainment and a deeply sceptical portrait of civilisation. Frequently adapted for younger readers, its original complexity and darker passages reveal a work far removed from a simple children’s adventure, and one of the defining achievements of eighteenth-century English prose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Jonathan Swift, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Whether the excellence of Gulliver’s Travels is in the conception or the execution, the power is somewhere, and it is a power that has moved the world.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— William Hazlitt, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLectures on the English Poets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64214714319178,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/gullivers-travels","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}