Gulliver's Travels: Puffin Classics
Autor Jonathan Swiften Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2025 – vârsta până la 14 ani
Această ediție din colecția Wordsworth Classics ne propune o incursiune în genul aventurii satirice, oferind o perspectivă mult mai profundă decât adaptările simplificate pentru copii. Reținem faptul că Gulliver's Travels nu este doar o poveste despre pitici și uriași, ci o critică tăioasă la adresa vanității și ignoranței umane, structurată în patru călătorii distincte ale medicului de bord Lemuel Gulliver. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care a fost îngrijit acest volum: textul restaurat reflectă viziunea originală a lui Jonathan Swift, incluzând pasaje care au fost eliminate de editorii vremii din motive politice. Pe același raft cu Gulliver's Travels and a Modest Proposal, această ediție se adresează tinerilor cititori de peste 12 ani și adulților care caută o experiență de lectură autentică, îmbogățită de un aparat critic impresionant. Structura cărții este exemplară, ghidând cititorul de la primele scrisori fictive dintre personaj și editorul său, până la anexe ce explorează legăturile cu Utopia lui Sir Thomas More. În contextul operei sale, volumul de față reprezintă culmea stilului satiric al lui Swift, regăsit și în The Battle of the Books sau A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works. Dacă în alte scrieri Swift se concentrează pe dispute intelectuale specifice, aici el construiește lumi întregi — de la insula plutitoare Laputa la raționalele creaturi Houyhnhnms — pentru a pune în oglindă defectele societății engleze. Este o lectură care solicită atenție, dar care răsplătește prin umorul său intelectual și prin actualitatea surprinzătoare a observațiilor sociale.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241736463
ISBN-10: 0241736463
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Puffin Classics
ISBN-10: 0241736463
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Puffin Classics
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să le ofere copiilor o ediție integrală a unui clasic universal. Dincolo de elementele fantastice care captivează imaginația, cititorul câștigă o lecție valoroasă de gândire critică. Este un instrument educativ excelent datorită anexelor istorice, ajutându-i pe tineri să înțeleagă cum literatura poate deveni o voce puternică împotriva nedreptății și a prostiei umane.
Despre autor
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) a fost un scriitor anglo-irlandez, cleric și activist politic, considerat cel mai important autor de satiră în proză din limba engleză. Maestru al pseudonimelor, el a semnat lucrări fundamentale precum Gulliver's Travels și A Tale of a Tub. Cariera sa a fost marcată de o implicare profundă în viața politică și socială, fiind un apărător fervent al cauzelor irlandeze prin scrieri precum The Drapier's Letters. Stilul său, care variază de la ironia fină la satira caustică, a influențat generații de scriitori, lăsând în urmă o operă ce analizează fără menajamente condiția umană.
Descriere scurtă
This collector-quality Summit Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece includes the complete text of Swift's timeless classic tale of the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in a variety of strange lands in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition, faithfully following the text of the second edition authorized by Swift, in which many of the passages deleted by the original publisher were restored. With a generous 6"x9" page size, this edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers, an expanded detailed table of contents for quick location of specific episodes, proper placement of footnotes and page design reflecting the classic values of book publishing exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish clergyman, author, journalist, and political activist, originally published his masterpiece in 1726. An instant success throughout the British Empire, it cemented Swift's reputation as a writer and social commentator. The work's merciless lampooning of the petty, pompous and ignorant pretensions and foolishness of people and their political leaders has made it a timeless classic, a commentary on human nature no less apt today than the day it was published. Often reprinted and adapted, some versions have been poorly done, treating it as a simple story for children and, more frequently, truncating the tale and presenting only the visit to Lilliput as if it were the whole book. In fact, Gulliver, a ship's doctor and later captain of his own ship, goes on four separate voyages and visits a series of strange lands, each of which exposes him to new perspectives on life and each of which provides Swift with a vehicle for satirizing aspects of human nature and English society. The first voyage, almost universally familiar, is to Lilliput, a land inhabited by tiny men to whom Gulliver is a giant. While the Lilliputians initially seem amiable and reasonable, once over their fear of Gulliver they are gradually exposed as ridiculous and petty creatures. The second voyage takes Gulliver to Brobdingnag, where the tables are turned and Gulliver seems tiny in a land of giants. At first as afraid of the giants as the Lilliputians were of him, Gulliver finds the giants to be surprisingly gentle. He is humiliated as he realizes, while trying to explain English society, how flawed it is, and comes to understand how grotesque he must have seemed to the Lilliputians. Gulliver's third voyage takes him to lands where he is able to summon the dead, discovering historical deceptions, encounters a race of "deep thinkers" who have no common sense or practical skills, and finds another race who are miserably unhappy despite, or because of, their immortality. The fourth voyage is to the land of the Houyhnhnms, intelligent horses endowed with reason and language. Their society is orderly, rational, clean, and simple, in stark contrast to the filth, ignorance and brutality of the Yahoos, beasts in human form. Slowly, and reluctantly, Gulliver realizes that the Yahoos are human in more than just physical resemblance. Attributed to "Lemuel Gulliver" when originally published, the work takes the form of a narrative received from Gulliver by a cousin, who is authorized to do as he sees best with it. Swift's original manuscript was given to a London publisher who paled at some of the more politically incendiary passages and actually edited the text before printing it. The original manuscript was then burned, perhaps to conceal Swift's handwriting from the authorities or perhaps to prevent the publisher's being caught in possession of the original. The purported letter from Gulliver to his cousin which appears in this edition was not part of the original printing, and is actually a thinly disguised list of Swift's complaints rebuking the original publisher for what Swift saw as shortcomings in the first edition.
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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? Gulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consummately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift plays tricks on us, and delivers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.This new edition includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.'In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? Gulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consummately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift plays tricks on us, and delivers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.This new edition includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Regarded as the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) intended this masterpiece, as he once wrote Alexander Pope, to "vex the world rather than divert it." Savagely ironic, it portrays man as foolish at best, and at worst, not much more than an ape.
The direct and unadorned narrative describes four remarkable journies of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them, one to the land of Lilliput, where six-inch-high inhabitants bicker over trivialities; and another to Brobdingnag, a land where giants reduce man to insignificance.
Written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail, this classic is diverse in its appeal: for children, it remains an enchanting fantasy. For adults, it is a witty parody of political life in Swift's time and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England."
The direct and unadorned narrative describes four remarkable journies of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them, one to the land of Lilliput, where six-inch-high inhabitants bicker over trivialities; and another to Brobdingnag, a land where giants reduce man to insignificance.
Written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail, this classic is diverse in its appeal: for children, it remains an enchanting fantasy. For adults, it is a witty parody of political life in Swift's time and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England."
Notă biografică
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric. He rose to the position of dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, earning him the moniker "Dean Swift." He lived from 30 November 1667 to 19 October 1745. A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal are among Swift's best-known writings (1729). He first published all of his works anonymously or using aliases, such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier. He was a master of the Horatian and Juvenalian satirical genres. His writing is deadpan and sardonic, especially in "A Modest Proposal", which is why such satire has come to be known as "Swiftian." On November 30, 1667, in Dublin, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Jonathan Swift was born. He was the only son and the second child of Frisby on the Wreake residents Jonathan Swift (1640-1667) and Abigail Erick (or Herrick). After 1700, Swift lived in Trim, County Meath. Many of his works were written by him at this time. Swift graduated with a Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College Dublin in February 1702.
Recenzii
In this narrative of the gullible ship’s doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literature an enduring model of mankind’s follies, vulnerabilities, vanities, and self-destructiveness. Dangerously topical in its own time and much debated ever since, Gulliver’s Travels is among those works of English literature that entrap and challenge readers in every period.
This edition uses the 1735 edition as the copy text, retaining the original, unmodernized text. Historical appendices provide a context for the novel’s literary models, scientific influences, and complex political and religious allusions.
“Gulliver’s Travels is a timeless work, but Allan Ingram’s edition reminds us that it’s a timely one, too. His introduction, notes, and appendices put the eighteenth century’s greatest satire in a wide variety of contexts—biographical, historical, political, scientific, and literary—giving us an ideal edition for classroom use. No edition does a better job of explaining Swift’s masterpiece as a product of its age.” — Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
“This new edition of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels provides both first-time and return readers with a well-constructed framework within which to place a familiar work. Allan Ingram’s engaging introduction deftly combines a summary of contemporary controversies over politics, religion, learning, science, and Ireland, with a summary of Swift’s life and a history of the composition, publication, and critical reception of the Travels. The footnotes to the text anticipate the kinds of knowledge a twenty-first-century reader might lack: the outmoded usage of a single word or the identity of an individual, as well as references to broader issues and ideas. Ingram observes that Swift ‘asks the kinds of questions of his readers to which we have few answers.’ His edition will enable readers to carry on the debate about those questions.” — Melinda Alliker Rabb, Brown University
This edition uses the 1735 edition as the copy text, retaining the original, unmodernized text. Historical appendices provide a context for the novel’s literary models, scientific influences, and complex political and religious allusions.
“Gulliver’s Travels is a timeless work, but Allan Ingram’s edition reminds us that it’s a timely one, too. His introduction, notes, and appendices put the eighteenth century’s greatest satire in a wide variety of contexts—biographical, historical, political, scientific, and literary—giving us an ideal edition for classroom use. No edition does a better job of explaining Swift’s masterpiece as a product of its age.” — Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
“This new edition of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels provides both first-time and return readers with a well-constructed framework within which to place a familiar work. Allan Ingram’s engaging introduction deftly combines a summary of contemporary controversies over politics, religion, learning, science, and Ireland, with a summary of Swift’s life and a history of the composition, publication, and critical reception of the Travels. The footnotes to the text anticipate the kinds of knowledge a twenty-first-century reader might lack: the outmoded usage of a single word or the identity of an individual, as well as references to broader issues and ideas. Ingram observes that Swift ‘asks the kinds of questions of his readers to which we have few answers.’ His edition will enable readers to carry on the debate about those questions.” — Melinda Alliker Rabb, Brown University
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jonathan Swift: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Gulliver’s Travels
Appendix A: Preliminary Correspondence
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jonathan Swift: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Gulliver’s Travels
Appendix A: Preliminary Correspondence
- “Richard Sympson” to Benjamin Motte (8 August 1726)
- Benjamin Motte to “Richard Sympson” (11 August 1726)
- “Richard Sympson” to Benjamin Motte (13 August 1726)
- From Lucian’s True History (2nd century CE)
- From Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
- From Cyrano de Bergerac, The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun (1657, 1662)
- From William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
- From Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society (1702)
- From Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation Upon Parties (1735)
- Jonathan Swift, Brotherly Love. A Sermon (1717)
- From William Molyneux, The Case of Ireland (1698)
- From Jonathan Swift, The Drapier’s First Letter (1724)
- Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland (1728)
- Swift’s Correspondence
- John Gay and Alexander Pope to Swift ([7] November 1726)
- Alexander Pope to Swift (16 November 1726)
- Swift to Alexander Pope (17 November 1726)
- “Lemuel Gulliver” to Mrs. Howard (28 November 1726)
- Swift to Benjamin Motte (28 December 1727)
- From Anon., A Letter from a Clergyman (1726)
- Poems Attached to Gulliver’s Travels (1727)
- From John, Earl of Orrery, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1752)