Gulliver's Travels
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves. Review: Amazing Bickford-Smith design - A classic with a wonderfully designed exterior Review: Nice book - The book is quite nice ,the clothbound cover really makes it worth the price. The print is good and legible you won't be disappointed if like something that's going to last.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 326 Reviews |
R**E
Amazing Bickford-Smith design
A classic with a wonderfully designed exterior
M**N
Nice book
The book is quite nice ,the clothbound cover really makes it worth the price. The print is good and legible you won't be disappointed if like something that's going to last.
T**Y
BINDINGS to DIE FOR..
Some books are bought for reading--but some are bought because the bindings are beautiful and indicate the lost art of a fine binding--these cloth bound editions by penguin classics do this--want a book investment but don't have a few thousand to spend on 1 or 2 modern firsts? Think on buying traditional classics with fine bindings--why not contemporary bindings like these by Coralie Bickford-Smith? They are beautiful and a delight to hold and look at--oh yes--the story is wonderful too. LOL
M**I
Great edition...with one exception
Great story, beautiful edition and design! Not my first book from.this series, so I can share the big minus - with time, the cover fades and all.print is coming off! I hope they will fix this for future titles and come up with better quality materials as their covers.
A**R
Arrived in good condition.
Arrived in good condition.
B**N
Beautiful
Haven’t read this one yet but always loved the story growing up. The color is beautiful.
T**E
It's a book
I like the cover of the book and I like that it was in good condition upon arrival. I plan to use this product for reading.
D**L
They look great and add that little bit of color and style ...
I purchased these books more as decoration for a shelf I have in my family room. They look great and add that little bit of color and style I was looking for. They're not big books though if thats what you're looking for, but great to look at! Feel sturdy as well.
C**N
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K**E
Nice cover smaller font inside
Nice cover and bound well. This classic looks great but the font inside is on the smaller side.
S**E
😍
Very beautiful book. Packaged well. Reasonably priced. Punctual delivery.
M**E
This year is Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' 300th publication anniversary.
I have purchased many copies of this book as gifts. It was first published in 1726. This year is its 300th anniversary. I would have though that its publishers and book critics would have brought this fact to the publics notice. Throughout history one thing never changes - 'human nature'.
E**N
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