GULLIVER'S TRAVELS : By Lemuel Gulliver, First St Surgeon and Then a Captain of Several Ships. I, a Voyage to Lilliput. II, a Voyage to Brobdingnag
by Swift. Jonathan
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- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jaques, Robin. Illustrated with B&W Full-Page and In-Text Drawings by Robin Jacques. 195 p.pages, 500g, 8 1/4" Tall. Faint library stamp on fore and top page edges. Also on endpaper and title page. Some traces of an old label having beeb removed from ffep. No other inscriptions. Jacket protected in removable, clear plastic wrapper. Unclipped.
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
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019564
- Title
- GULLIVER'S TRAVELS : By Lemuel Gulliver, First St Surgeon and Then a Captain of Several Ships. I, a Voyage to Lilliput. II, a Voyage to Brobdingnag
- Author
- Swift. Jonathan
- Illustrator
- Jaques, Robin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS/CHIOLDREN'S CLASSICS/CLASSICS
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