Gulliver's travels [electronic resource] / Jonathan Swift ; edited with an introduction by Claude Rawson and notes by Ian Higgins.
By: Swift, Jonathan.
Contributor(s): Rawson, Claude Julien | Higgins, Ian | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press): Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005Edition: New ed.Description: lix, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.Subject(s): Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800 | Travelers -- FictionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.5 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlviii]-liii).
Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's travels -- Advertisement -- A letter from Capt. Gulliver to his cousin Sympson -- The publisher to the reader -- A voyage to Lilliput -- A voyage to Brobdingnag -- A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan -- A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
"Gulliver's travels purports to be a travel book. It is a blend of fantasy and realism and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms"--Provided by publisher.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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