Jonathan Swift ~6 hr read

Shipwrecked among the six-inch people of Lilliput, then adrift among the giants of Brobdingnag, a wandering surgeon holds up a mirror to all human folly.

This French edition presents Jonathan Swift's 1726 'Gulliver's Travels,' one of the greatest satires ever written. Sharp, savage, endlessly inventive. Read it for the immortal classic of imaginative and satirical fiction, in Desfontaines's classic French translation with Gavarni's illustrations.

In its time

Published in 1726, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Paul Gavarni