Jonathan Swift

An oversized, slipcase-housed, art book edition of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift’s fantastical travelogue and piercing satire of imperialism, now illustrated with a vast suite of drawings from the renowned Italian graphic artist Lorenzo Mattotti, and original essays from comedian Patton Oswalt and scholar Elizabeth Bellamy. A surgeon turned castaway, Lemuel Gulliver sails into the absurd and the sublime in Jonathan Swift’s savage satire. He awakens shipwrecked among the six-inch citizens of Lilliput, later towers beneath the colossal gaze of Brobdingnagians. He debates floating philosophers in the airborne island of Laputa and recoils from the brutish Yahoos among the noble Houyhnhnms—horses more rational than man. Each voyage peels back the illusion of civilization, revealing hypocrisy, pride, and folly in human nature and the constructions of society. Now illustrated by the celebrated cartoonist, illustrator, fine artist and filmmaker Lorenzo Mattotti, with a suite of over sixty five illustrations, this kaleidoscopic adventure tale and scathing indictment human hubris is as bitingly funny and unnervingly prescient as ever. A stunning new entry in Beehive Books award-winning Illuminated Editions series, this volume is housed in a shimmering die-cut sculpturally embossed slipcase, printed on uncoated acid-free paper, and published in an oversized 9x12" trim format.

Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature. Gulliver's adventures with the tiny but spirited Lilliputians, the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag, the flying island of Laputa, and the rational horses of Houyhnmhnmland have become globally famous for their satirical wit and visionary creativity. Early editions credited Gulliver himself as the author, and many readers believed him to be a real person. Later commentators have variously described the work as proto-science fiction, as inspired children's literature and as a forerunner of the modern novel. The editor's introduction to this celebratory anniversary edition contextualises Gulliver's Travels in Swift's life and work as a whole while exploring its rich and remarkable afterlife. All the original illustrations and maps are included, as are the frontispiece portraits. Generous annotation explains textual details which might now seem obscure, and appendices contain additional documents and images to enhance contemporary understanding and enjoyment.

Lemjuel Gulliver, morskoj puteshestvennik iz Anglii, perezhil mnozhestvo udivitelnykh prikljuchenij. Snachala emu dovelos pobyvat v plenu u liliputov - kroshechnykh zhitelej strany Liliputija, a posle sudba zabrosila ego v korolevstvo Brobdingneg - stranu velikanov.Po sravneniju s liliputami Gulliver kazalsja vysokim, kak gora, i neverojatno silnym. No pri dvore korolja velikanov opasnosti okruzhali Gullivera so vsekh storon - dazhe obyknovennaja tarelka supa grozila emu bedoj. Sredi liliputov Gulliver proslavilsja kak nepobedimyj geroj, a v strane velikanov sam prevratilsja v bezzaschitnogo malenkogo chelovechka.No nesmotrja na vse ispytanija, geroj etoj knigi sumel ostatsja samim soboj: smelym, izobretatelnym, nakhodchivym i ostroumnym.