{"product_id":"book-e289","title":"Gulliver's Travels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrought to you by Penguin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels \u003c\/i\u003eis edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterwork of irony ... that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creativity of imagination'\u003cbr\u003eMalcolm Bradbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(P) Penguin Audio 2020\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49371531477296,"sku":"BDe289","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/679506-e289-Square.jpg?v=1745770989","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-e289","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}