Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1952

Reader's note

A wonderful copy of Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. This story is a much-loved satire on human nature and behaviour that still rings true today. Follow Lemuel Gulliver’s Travels to the fantastic lands of Lilliput, a place of little people who are violently divided over the most trivial of differences, to Brobdingnag, a land of cultured giants, and Laputa, a flying island where the inhabitants pursue impractical science and research. This edition is illustrated throughout and contains some full colour plates. ‘“My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country: you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying as a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.’