Gulliver's Travels - World Bestselling Children's Literature Classics (Complete Translation)

Author: Swift
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, immediately shocked British society at the time and stirred the world literary scene. Within a week of its release, all copies were. To this day, its influence spans the globe, earning its rightful place in the forest of world literature and radiating eternal brilliance. Gulliver's Travels is the masterpiece of British writer Swift, one of the most widely read and enduring works in the world, particularly famous for the stories of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Swift was the founder of the radical democratic faction during the British Enlightenment, a poet, and the most outstanding political essayist and satirical novelist of 18th-century Britain. He is also one of the greatest satirical writers in the world. In 1985, it was selected by Life magazine as one of the best books of all time. It was included in the 21st edition of the American Guide to Good Reading as one of the 100 great works recommended. As part of the World Bestselling Children's Literature Classics series, Gulliver's Travels is the masterpiece of Swift, the most outstanding political essayist and satirical novelist of 18th-century Britain, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel narrates the experiences of Captain Gulliver as he travels to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Islands, and the Land of the Houyhnhnms, all in the first person. With magical imagination, exaggeration, allegorical style, and satire, the author critiques the British political system, particularly the corruption, incompetence, cruelty, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class, delivering a scathing denunciation.