Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World. A New Edition, Edited for Young Readers
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175 pp. Green boards with gilt title on spine and on front board. Edited for young readers by Edwin O. Chapman. Includes over 250 engravings. Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (which is the full title), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. He himself claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput. Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag. Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan. Part IV: A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms.