voyages, imaginary

Jonathan Swift's satirical novel was first published in 1726, yet it is still valid today. Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship's surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance. His travels take him to Lilliput where he is a giant observing tiny people. In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. The flying island of Laputa is the scene of his next voyage. The people plan and plot as their country lies in ruins. It is a world of illusion and distorted values. The fourth and final voyage takes him to the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses who rule the land. He also encounters Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who resemble humans.

Relates the adventures of a scientist who invents a machine that transports him into the future.

Presents an illustrated, twenty-fifth anniversary edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the story of a young man who is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway.

A graphic novel adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satire in which the voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high and a community of giants.