William Collins Gulliver’s Travels Свифт Джонатан

"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

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

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

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses • Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature

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"Путешествие к центру Земли" - один из первых научно-фантастических романов Жюля Верна, рассказывающий о дерзком и опасном путешествии в недра Земли через жерло вулкана • Случайно выпавший из книги ветхий клочок пергамента стал отправной точкой небывалой экспедиции профессора Отто Лиденброка и его племянника Акселя. Стремление пройти по следам знаменитого алхимика Арне Сакнуссема, чтобы повторить его подвиг - достигнуть центра Земли, - оборачивается для путешественников проверкой на мужество, стойкость и взаимную поддержку • Книга на английском языке • In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. Eventually he deciphers the story - that of an Icelandic explorer who travels to the centre of the earth, finding his way there via a volcano