Alma Books Gulliver’s Travels Свифт Джонатан

A set of 6 much-loved stories from classic English literature for children, brought together by Puffin Books in beautiful paperback cover designs • In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary people and remarkable creatures. From a race of miniature folk to some surprisingly gentle giants and wise horses, Gulliver sees society from many different perspectives. Back in England life seems very ordinary after all his experiences, but Gulliver's fantastic adventures change his views on human behaviour forever

"Путешествия Гулливера" - фантастический роман Джонатана Свифта, философа и писателя XVIII века, едко высмеивающий недостатки человечества - безнравственность, глупость, закоснелость политических систем и бездумную веру. "Путешествия Гулливера" стали классикой английской литературы, их читают и любят в разных странах • Книга на английском языке • An immaculate success on its publication in 1726, Gulliver's Travels has since had an odd double life as both a classic traveller's tale for children and a scathing satire of the human condition. Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in a series of fantastical lands - where he meets the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the excessively rational equine Houyhnhnms, the wild and brutish Yahoos, and the philosophical Laputans - leave him with a deeply pessimistic perspective on his own kind

The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift • 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant' • A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for ever. Swift's classic of 1726 portrays mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with a comical yet uncompromising reflection of ourselves

Потерпевший кораблекрушение в открытом море Лемюэль Гулливер оказывается выброшенным на странный остров Лилипутия, страну, населенную сварливыми миниатюрными людьми. В своих путешествиях он продолжает встречаться с другими людьми, которые заставляют его задуматься о человеческом поведении - великанами из Бробдингнага, гуигнгнмами и еху. В этой язвительной сатире на политику и мораль 18-го века осуждение Свифтом общества и его институтов все еще находит отклик сегодня • Книга на английском языке • Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos

In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary people and remarkable creatures. From a race of miniature folk to some surprisingly gentle giants and wise horses, Gulliver sees society from many different perspectives. Back in England life seems very ordinary after all his experiences, but Gulliver's fantastic adventures change his views on human behaviour forever

When his ship is lost in a storm, Gulliver swims to the land of Lilliput. Lilliput is no ordinary island, and Gulliver soon finds that he is a BIG problem there… • Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British English and American English)

«Путешествия Гулливера» — сатирико-фантастический роман Джонатана Свифта, впервые опубликованый в 1726 году, через семь лет после "Робинзона Крузо" Дефо (одного из немногих его соперников по славе и широте охвата) • Корабельный врач Лемуэль Гулливер всегда мечтал о море. Вместе с ним мы отправимся в необычное путешествие, полное опасностей и приключений • Роман содержит увлекательный приключенческий сюжет, сочетающий эле­менты фантастики, утопии, антиутопии и сатирической притчи • Книга на английском языке • Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Ilouyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species

Эта книга принадлежит к числу любимейших книг читающего человечества. Причина ее популярности прежде всего в богатой фантазии автора, в мастерски задуманной фабуле. Этим, конечно, объясняется ее небывалый успех у читателей всех народов. Но если бы значение книги сводилось только к ее «занимательности», она не нашла бы себе места среди самых глубоких и поучительных созданий человеческого гения. Эта повесть о лилипутах и великанах, это внешнее оформление словно создано для того, чтобы вместить величайшее содержание • Под видом фантастических приключений Свифт показал читателям нравственный срез целого общества своей эпохи со всеми его пороками и заблуждениями. Смысл романа «Путешествия Гулливера» заключается в том, чтобы показать абсурдность идей эпохи Просвещения, которые несправедливо возвышали человека и его скудные знания о мироздании

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics • 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' • Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today

Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material • "And specially from every shires ende • Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, • The hooly blisful martir for to seke, • That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke." • Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper • The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of 'The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin

A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying by the seat of his pants, the great author treats us to a condensed biography of his posterior, enlivened by some inspired wordplay • Most famous for his celebrated masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, Swift was the foremost satirist of his day. Also including a selection of Swift's other lesser-known works, and a very peculiar proposal to make money from public toilets, this volume will be a hilarious and illuminating read for any fans of Ireland's most illustrious wit

Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, The Battle of the Books shows Swift at his wittiest and most trenchant. In this early satire, various books in St James's Library take on a life of their own and come into conflict with one another, in a pastiche of the heroic epic genre • As well as providing humorous reflections on the nature of scholarship and education, Swift seizes the opportunity to take swipes at several authors and critics. The result is a timeless and entertaining parody by one of the most enduringly popular writers in the English language