GULLIVER’S TRAVELS: An Illuminated Edition

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels — the fantastical travelogue and piercing satire of imperialism — is now an illustrated oversized art book edition with over 65 drawings from the renowned Italian graphic artist Lorenzo Mattotti, plus original essays from comedian Patton Oswalt (intro) and scholar Elizabeth Bellamy (foreword). This stunning new entry in Beehive Books' award-winning Illuminated Editions series comes housed in a shimmering, die-cut and sculpturally embossed slipcase, printed on uncoated acid-free paper, and published in an oversized 9" x 12" trim format. A surgeon turned castaway, Lemuel Gulliver sails into the absurd and the sublime in Jonathan Swift's savage satire. He awakens shipwrecked among the six-inch citizens of Lilliput, and later towers beneath the colossal gaze of Brobdingnagians. He debates floating philosophers in the airborne island of Laputa and recoils from the brutish Yahoos among the noble Houyhnhnms — horses more rational than man. Each voyage peels back the illusion of civilization, revealing hypocrisy, pride, and folly in human nature and the constructions of society. Now illustrated by the celebrated cartoonist, illustrator, fine artist and filmmaker Lorenzo Mattotti, with a suite of over sixty-five illustrations, this kaleidoscopic adventure tale and scathing indictment of human hubris is as bitingly funny and unnervingly prescient as ever.