书目

Gulliver's Travels (Penguin English Library)[格列佛游记]

内容简介

ThePenguinEnglishLibraryEditionofGulliver'sTravelsbyJonathanSwift.'FifteenhundredoftheEmperor'slargesthorses,eachaboutfourinchesandanhalfhigh,wereemployedtodrawmetowardstheMetropolis,which,asIsaid,washalfaMiledistant'Asavageandhilarioussatire,Gulliver'sTravelsseesLemuelGullivershipwreckedandadrift,subjecttobizarreandunnervingencounterswith,amongothers,quarrellingLilliputians,philosophizinghorsesandthebrutishYahootribe,thatchangehisviewofhumanity-andhimself-forever.Swift'sclassicof1726portraysmankindinadistortedhallofmirrorsasadiminished,magnifiedandfinallybestialspecies,presentinguswithacomicalyetuncompromisingreflectionofourselves.ThePenguinEnglishLibrary-100editionsofthebestfictioninEnglish,fromtheeighteenthcenturyandtheveryfirstnovelstothebeginningoftheFirstWorldWar.

作者简介

JonathanSwift(1667-1745)somehowmanagedtobalancehisroleasDeanofStPatrick'sCathedral,Dublinwithbeingoneofthemosteffective,disgustedandferocioussatiristsintheEnglishlanguage.Gulliver'sTravelsisbothaparodyofwhatSwiftviewedastheridiculouslycontrivedexotictravelgenrepioneeredbywriterssuchasCaptainWilliamDampierandanincomparablyvividandfunnynarrativethatliesattheveryheartofearlyEnglishfiction.

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