The Story of Gulliver
The Story of Gulliver

Author: Jonathan Coe

Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1782690190

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"For the first time in his life, Gulliver felt ashamed of himself and his fellow-humans." Gulliver is a travel-hungry and adventurous ship's doctor, who has the odd misfortune of being ship-wrecked four times in as many voyages. Through Jonathan Coe's expert retelling of Swift's famous satire about our human hubris and desires, today's young readers are swept along as Gulliver finds himself a giant among tiny humans in Lilliput; a tiny human among giants in Brobdignag; on the flying island of Laputa, with its most impractical intellectuals; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of human "Yahoos". Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."

The Gulliver Giant
The Gulliver Giant

Author: Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Publisher: Stone Arch Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 149658287X

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Sandy beaches, tiny arrows, and knee-high trees. What has the Library turned into this time? The Nightingale Library pages are up against armies of tiny people on the island of Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels. Meanwhile their giant arch enemies have lost track of their giant pet monkey, who's loose in the Library!

Gulliver Quick
Gulliver Quick

Author: Maureen Earl

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 145329385X

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Gulliver Quick begins with the title character’s death. Immediately thereafter, five women present at the scene claim to be the sole murderer, thus establishing the exciting backdrop to a detailed chronological account of Quick’s colorful, turbulent life as a prominent artist whose appetites are strong, whose achievements are great, and whose adventures, carefully tied to actual 20th-century events, span four centuries.

The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels
The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

Author: Daniel Cook

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1108830196

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The definitive guide to Swift's controversial satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, demonstrating its complexity and enduring legacy.

God, Gulliver, and Genocide
God, Gulliver, and Genocide

Author: Claude Julien Rawson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780199257508

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We are obsessed with 'barbarians'. They are the 'not us', who don't speak our language, or 'any language', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigour we aspire to, and who have an extraordinaryinfluence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilised metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. They come in two overlapping categories, ethnic others and home-grownpariahs: conquered infidels and savages, the Irish, the poor, the Jews. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from 1492 to 1945, through the voices of many writers, chiefly Montaigne, Swift and, to a lesser extent, Shaw.