"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 shipwrecked 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".
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First paperback edition of one of the bestselling Save the Story titles: the disconcerting encounters of Lemuel Gulliver
Dashingly illustrated... Fresh, idiosyncratic and winning... The Story of Gulliver has Jonathan Coe's hallmark clarity. The style is attractive, entertaining, non-exclamatory (Swift would have approved). And he writes acutely about scale and intellectual distance
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781782692072
Publisert
2018-11-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Pushkin Children's Books
Høyde
200 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
J, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

Forfatter
Illustratør

Om bidragsyterne

Jonathan Coe was born a long time ago in England, where he still lives. He has written twelve books, among them The House of Sleep and The Rain Before it Falls, but knows that he will never write as beautiful a book as Gulliver's Travels.