Gulliver's Travels: INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD - In Four Parts
by Swift, Dean (Jonathan)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seneca, Pennsylvania, United States
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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
- Russ States (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15-0756
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels: INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD - In Four Parts
- Author
- Swift, Dean (Jonathan)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- Fiction, Classics, Satire
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Russ States
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