Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)

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Swift, Jonathan 저자(글)

Penguin Classic · 2003년 02월 25일

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Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos.Beneath the surface of this enchanting fantasy lurks a devastating critique of human malevolence, stupidity, greed, vanity, and short-sightedness. A brilliant combination of adventure, humor, and philosophy, Gulliver's Travels is one of literature's most durable masterpieces.

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저자(글) Swift, Jonathan

아일랜드의 소설가·성직자. 어릴 때부터 백부의 손에서 자랐으며, 더블린의 트리니티 칼리지를 졸업했다. 방종하고 게으른 학생이었으며, 특별한 배려로 졸업할 수 있었다. 영국 런던으로 나와 어머니 쪽 먼 친척인 당시 정치계의 거물 W. 템플 경 밑에서 비서 생활을 했다. 여기서 고전과 역사를 배웠으며, 여러 정치가와 접촉하며 차츰 정계에 야심을 품었다. 한때 아일랜드로 돌아가 목사가 되었으나 다시 템플 집안의 사람이 되었으며, 1690년대부터 시와 문장에도 손을 대기 시작했다. 1704년 1권으로 출간된 풍자소설 《책들의 싸움》(1704)과 《통 이야기》(1704)는 그의 초기 대표작이다. 《책들의 싸움》은 고대와 근대 어느 쪽의 문화가 더 나은가라는 당시 떠들썩했던 논쟁에 한몫 끼어 고전 찬미파를 지지했던 작품이다. 《통 이야기》는 가톨릭교·개신교·영국국교회의 싸움을, 부친으로부터 상속받은 웃옷을 서로 차지하려고 싸우는 3명의 아들에 비유하여 풍자한 작품이다. 두 작품 모두 당시의 정세에 어두운 오늘날 독자들에게는 읽기 어려운 작품이나 작자의 풍자 재능은 뚜렷하다. 이후 풍자·논쟁의 재능이 인정되어 당시 휘그당·토리당 두 당의 정치 논쟁이 격심한 가운데 정치저널리즘에 등장할 기회가 주어졌으나 공명출세를 서둘러 집필상의 절조가 없었으며, 때마침 정계 상황의 격변도 있고 의지했던 템플 경도 세상을 떠나 정치에 대한 야심을 단념했다. 1713년 이후에는 더블린의 성 패트릭교회 수석사제가 되었다. 이곳에서도 그는 불평·불만이 많았으며 평생 동안 번민에 쌓여 있었기에, 이는 태어난 이후의 기구한 경력과 함께 그를 남과 어울리기 싫어하는 성질로 만들어 더욱 통렬한 풍자의 길로 나아가게 했다. 이때 등장한 것이 《걸리버 여행기》(1726)로 아일랜드문학사는 물론 영문학사에서도 명작 또는 기작으로 평가되고 있다. 이외에도 세상에 널리 알려지지는 않았으나, 이름을 숨기고 출판한 《드레피어의 편지》(1724)는 영국의 열악한 통화 정책에 의한 아일랜드 착취를 신랄하게 공격하여, 필자 발견에 현상금을 걸 정도로 런던 정부를 당황하게 만들었다. 그는 1745년 10월 19일 더블린에서 사망하여 성 패트릭교회에 묻혔다. 죽은 뒤 출판된 《노비훈(奴婢訓)》(1745)은 남녀 하인들에게 어떻게 주인의 눈을 속이고 재물을 훔치는가를 가르치는 기이한 책이다. 이 밖에도 서간문 형식의 작품 《스텔라에게 보내는 일기》(1766년 이후 간행) 등이 있다.

목차

• Part I A Voyage to Lilliput
  Chapter 1 Gulliver Is Shipwrecked and Made a Prisoner 1
  Chapter 2 The Emperor of Lilliput 18
  Chapter 3 Gulliver at the Court of Lilliput 34
  Chapter 4 The Emperor's Palace and His Principal Secretary 45
  Chapter 5 Gulliver Prevents an Invasion of Lilliput 53
  Chapter 6 Lilliput's Laws, Customs, and Educational Methods 61
  Chapter 7 Escape to Blefuscu 74
  Chapter 8 Gulliver Returns to His Native Country 84
  Part II A Voyage to Brobdingnag
  Chapter 9 Gulliver Is Captured by a Native 97
  Chapter 10 Gulliver Is Taken to the City 113
  Chapter 11 The Queen Buys Gulliver from the Farmer 123
  Chapter 12 Gulliver Shows His Skill in Navigation 139
  Chapter 13 Gulliver Amuses the King and Queen 158
  Chapter 14 Gulliver Returns to England 172
  Part III Voyages to Laputa and the Country of the Houyhnhnms
  Chapter 15 A Flying Island 193
  Chapter 16 Laputa and Its People 203
  Chapter 17 The Grand Academy at Lagado 220
  Chapter 18 The Land of Magic-Japan-Then Home 238
  Chapter 19 The Houyhnhnms' Country 255
  Chapter 20 Gulliver Understands the Speech of the Master Horse 276
  Chapter 21 Gulliver Discusses England and Makes Observations on the Houyhnhnms 293
  Chapter 22 Gulliver Is Forced to Return Home 311

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Chapter 1

The Author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life, gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput, is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies: but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and my father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be some time or other my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended, by my good master Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannell commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts. When I came back, I resolved to settle in London, to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. I took part of a small house in the OldJury; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
But, my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my conscience would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore consulted with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to sea. I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West-Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language, wherein I had a great facility by the strength of my memory.
The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed from the Old Jury to Fetter-Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors, but it would not turn to account. After three years expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South-Sea. We set sail from Bristol May 4, 1699, and our voyage at first was very prosperous.......

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An authoritative edition of literature's most brilliant satire

Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver’s encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift’s fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.

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ISBN	9780141439495 ( 0141439491 )
발행(출시)일자	2003년 02월 25일
쪽수	336쪽
크기	130 * 196 * 23 mm / 249 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어

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