Gulliver's Travels: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism
by Swift, Jonathan
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1586173952
- ISBN 13
- 9781586173951
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Trade paperback. Mild wear, with chips on the edges and a couple of mildly turned corners. The spine is square and creaseless. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Swift's great satire with literary analysis presented through a traditionalist/religionist filter. The editor, Dutton Kearney, is an instructor of literature and theology at Aquinas College in Nashville.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Turtleman Used Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ST10618
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1586173952
- ISBN 13
- 9781586173951
- Publisher
- Ignatius Press
- Place of Publication
- San Fransisco
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 431
- Size
- 13.3 cm x 20.2 cm x 2.6 cm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Literary Analysis;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Turtleman Used Books
About Turtleman Used Books
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