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The Annotated Gulliver's Travels
by Isaac Asimov, Jonathan Swift

ISBN 0517539497 (0-517-53949-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: In Four Volumes in One
by David Woolley

ISBN 3631408323 (3-631-40832-3)
Hardcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc

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Set with Vol. I-IV [via]
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Gulliver in Lilliput
by Jonathan Swift, Margaret Hodges, Kimberly Bulcken Root

ISBN 0823411478 (0-8234-1147-8)
Hardcover, Holiday House

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Gulliver in Lilliput
by Margaret Hodges, Kimberly Bulcken Root

ISBN 0823413039 (0-8234-1303-9)
Softcover, Holiday House

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Gulliver's Stories
by Jonathan Swift

ISBN 0590418424 (0-590-41842-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift, Michael Seidel

ISBN 1593080573 (1-59308-057-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos.

Beneath the surface of this enchanting fantasy lurks a devastating critique of human malevolence, stupidity, greed, vanity, and short-sightedness. A brilliant combination of adventure, humor, and philosophy, Gullivers Travels is one of literatures most durable masterpieces.

Michael Seidel is Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on eighteenth-century literature. His books include Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne (1979), Exile and the Narrative Imagination (1986), and Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel (1991).
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Gulliver's Travels
by James Riordan

ISBN 0613216563 (0-613-21656-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Embark on a journey with one of the greatest world travelers of all time. Ride with him across the South Seas to the miniature island of Liliput, where people grow no taller than six inches high. Round the Cape of Good Hope to the land of Brobdingnag, home of giants tall as church steeples, and sail on to the exotic lands of Laputa, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrip, and more. Share Gulliver's incredible adventures, from his singlehanded defeat of an entire naval fleet (albeit one whose ships are toy boat-sized), to his harrowing abduction by a giant eagle, to his unfortunate dunking in a reservoir-sized pot of cream by a jealous dwarf!
These are the stories of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's classic tale of fantastic adventures in far-off lands, brilliantly retold by James Riordan in rich, vivid prose that captures all the whimsy and satire of the original in the modern language of today's children. The illustrations by noted artist Victor Ambrus are rich and colorful, delicate in detail, strong in composition, and permeated with humor. And the insightful--often scathing--social commentary that Swift wove into his original tale remains intact, providing fascinating reading for adults as well as children. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Malvina G. Vogel, Johnathon Smith, Pablo Marcos

ISBN 1577658183 (1-57765-818-3)
Hardcover, Spotlight

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a wonderful children's book filled with great illustrations [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Angela Wilkes

ISBN 0860206122 (0-86020-612-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub

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Gulliver's Travels
by Claude Rawson, Jonathan Swift, Ian Higgins

ISBN 0192805347 (0-19-280534-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.

The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader's uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's role-playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Howard Erskine-Hill

ISBN 0521329345 (0-521-32934-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Leslie Kimmelman, Jonathan Swift, Nick Harris

ISBN 0721456146 (0-7214-5614-6)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd

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An Englishman's two voyages carry him to Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, and Brobdingnag, a land of giants. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Martin Woodside, Jamel Akib

ISBN 1402726627 (1-4027-2662-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swifts unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe.
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Gulliver's Travels
by S.D. Schindler, Jonathan Swift, Raymond James

ISBN 0816718652 (0-8167-1865-2)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc

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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
by Jonathan Swift

ISBN 0075536307 (0-07-553630-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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This volume helps readers situate one of the most popular adventure novels ever written, Gulliver's Travels, within the 18th-century process of inventing and resisting Great Britain. Ideas of nationalism--both Irish and British--are questioned and explored. Gulliver's Travels is interpreted as a critique of British colonial aggression, and has special appeal for courses in British literature and Irish studies. Supplemental materials include additional writings by Swift, such as pamphlets (including the famous "A Modest Proposal"), sermons, poems, and letters. A wealth of critical essays adds further context. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels And Other Writings
by Alan Richardson, Jonathan Swift, Clement Hawes

ISBN 0618084916 (0-618-08491-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Jonathan Swift
by A. L. Rowse

ISBN 0684145618 (0-684-14561-8)
Hardcover, Scribner

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Jonathan Swift
by Robert Hunting

ISBN 080576982X (0-8057-6982-X)
Hardcover, The Gale Group

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Jonathan Swift: A Portrait
by Victoria Glendinning

ISBN 0805061681 (0-8050-6168-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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"What I am writing is not a chronicle biography," cautions Victoria Glendinning of Jonathan Swift, but rather what the early-18th-century satirist and his contemporaries would have thought of as a "character," a prose portrait in which, as she puts it, Glendinning "[circles] a little, gradually zooming in on the man himself, until the central questions about him can finally be confronted in close-up."
Swift (1667-1745) is best known to many as the author of Gulliver's Travels; for others, he is more vividly remembered for A Modest Proposal, in which--with the textual equivalent of a deadpan expression--he offered Ireland's British rulers a solution to Irish overpopulation and poverty:
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Glendinning quotes extensively from Swift's prose and poetry, probing the political and aesthetic sensibilities that led him to such dark assessments of human nature, but she is just as strong--if not stronger--in her assessment of the two great romantic relationships in his life, with Esther Johnson ("Stella") and Hester Vanhomrigh ("Vanessa"). Here she draws upon extensive epistolary evidence, as well as contemporary accounts of the affairs. While there are some questions that cannot be conclusively answered--Were Swift and Stella secretly married? Did he ever consummate his relationship with Vanessa?--the ways in which Glendinning frames the possibilities make Swift come alive for modern readers, restoring a personality of great depth and complexity to a figure many know only by the name on a single book's title page. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver
by Jonathan Swift, Martin Jenkins, Chris Riddell

ISBN 0763624098 (0-7636-2409-8)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr

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A tour de force of illustration and design, JONATHAN SWIFT'S GULLIVER is a magnificent introduction to one of the most popular stories in the English language.

First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's classic adventure story has long been a favorite with adults and children alike. This magnificent edition contains all of Gulliver's extraordinary voyages. Travel to Lilliput, land of the small, and Brobdingnag, land of giants; to Laputa, where inhabitants need to be hit on the head with sticks to remind them to talk; to Glubbdubdrib, island of ghosts and magicians; and finally, to the kingdom of the Houyhnhnms, where horses rule over humans.

Award-winning author Martin Jenkins has skillfully abridged the original novel, remaining true to its tone and humor while making it accessible to younger readers. He is brilliantly assisted by Kate Greenaway Medalist Chris Riddell, who brings to life the people, creatures, and kingdoms of Swift's searing imagination in wonderful panoramic detail. [via]
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Jonathan Swift, Major Prophet
by A. L. Rowse

ISBN 0500011419 (0-500-01141-9)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson

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The Journal to Stella
by Jonathan Swift, Harold Williams

ISBN 0631154809 (0-631-15480-9)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub

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Mistress Masham's Repose
by T.H. White, Fritz Eichenberg

ISBN 1590171039 (1-59017-103-9)
Hardcover, Random House Distribution childrens

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The Portable Swift
by Jonathan Swift

ISBN 0140150374 (0-14-015037-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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THE CAUSTIC GENIUS OF JANATHAN SWIFT; GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, COMPLETE; EXCERPTS INCLUDING; A MODEST PROPOSAL; LETTERS TO ALEXANDER POPE; JOHN GAY; JOHN ARBUTHNOT AND OTHERS; POETRY INCLUDING; VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT; [via]
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Swift
by W. A. Speck

ISBN 0668021756 (0-668-02175-6)
Hardcover, Arco

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The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man
by Warren Montag

ISBN 1859840000 (1-85984-000-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Writings of Jonathan Swift
by Jonathan Swift, Robert Greenberg, William Piper

ISBN 0393094154 (0-393-09415-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism
by Jonathan Swift, Robert A. Greenberg, William Bowman Piper

ISBN 0393042839 (0-393-04283-9)
Hardcover, Norton

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Les Voyages De Gulliver
by Jonathan Swift

ISBN 1846374952 (1-84637-495-2)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Gulliver est une figure légendaire. Le mot "Lilliputiens" est devenu un nom commun. Classique parmi les classiques, ce livre est un roman de genre : un héros embarqué sur un navire qui fait naufrage échoue sur une île... Dès lors, tout est possible, surtout les choses les plus extraordinaires. C'est une fabuleuse occasion pour un écrivain de déployer tous les trésors de son imagination, et Jonathan Swift n'en manque pas. Dans la première partie, son héros se retrouve prisonnier d'un peuple minuscule. Après avoir vécu moult péripéties, il rentre chez lui, mais le démon de l'aventure le pousse à repartir. Comme les naufrages étaient nombreux à l'époque (on est à l'aube du XVIIIe siècle), le voilà derechef poussé par les flots vers un autre pays surprenant. Mais, cette fois, c'est lui qui est nain parmi des géants. Ces deux histoires fabuleuses, qui ont fait le tour du monde dans bien des versions et adaptations, sont à découvrir absolument dans le texte intégral, plein de saveur, même si les archaïsmes abondent et peuvent déconcerter le jeune lecteur : tournures de langage, évocation des moeurs de l'époque, mots inusités aujourd'hui réclament un petit effort de lecture. Qui sera largement récompensé par le plaisir de suivre ces passionnantes aventures. --Pascale Wester [via]
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