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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary. First he is shipwrecked in a strange land, and finds himself a prisoner of the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. Then he washes up in Brobdingnag, where the people are giants of extraordinary proportions. Further exploits see him stranded with the scientists and philosophers of Laputa, and meeting a race of talking horses who rule over bestial humans.

One of the finest satires in the English language, Gulliver’s Travels delights in the mockery of everything from government to religion and – despite the passing of nearly three centuries – remains just as funny and relevant today.

This gorgeous Macmillan Collector’s Library edition features the beautiful artwork of the celebrated English illustrator Arthur Rackham, and an afterword by Henry Hitchings.

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Autor

Jonathan Swift

Escritor irlandês. Nasceu em 1667 e faleceu em 1745. Estudou na Universidade de Dublin, doutorando-se em Teologia em 1694. Sempre observando as grandes correntes políticas da época, publicou o seu primeiro panfleto de intervenção em 1701. Sentindo-se cada vez mais atraído pela política, tornou-se um conselheiro escutado por todos e ocupou-se activamente de política externa. Em 1713, foi nomeado Deão da Catedral de S. Patrício, em Dublin. A sua obra é vastíssima, entre textos de intervenção, sátiras, ficção e poemas, destacando-se A Tale of the Tub (1704), The Public Spirit of the Whigs (1714), Drapier's Letters (1724-1725) e Gulliver's Travels (As Viagens de Gulliver,1726).

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