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This text is featured in the Easton Press series: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written . Published in 1976 as a Collector's Edition, bound in handsome Tan leather, and strikingly illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectables library. Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website: Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather. 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine. Heavy duty binding boards... . Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... . Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books. ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker. Gilded page ends. ***************************************************************************************************************************************************** "A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read ' Gulliver's Travels ' describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. . . . " ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". The above text derives from, respectively, Wikipedia and Penguin Publishing Group (via Google Books). [DeMaria, Robert., Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003.]