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Robert DeMaria

    Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College. His scholarship centers on eighteenth-century British literature, with a particular focus on Samuel Johnson. His work delves into the complexities of this literary period and its pivotal figures. He analyzes the stylistic innovations and thematic concerns that defined British writing.

    Gulliver's Travels
    • Gulliver's Travels

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.

      Gulliver's Travels
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