ROBIN HOOD THE PRINCE OF OUTLAWS A Tale of the Fourteenth Century from the "Lytell Geste"

CAROLA OMAN ( Lady Lenanton) , S.VAN ABBE , RBA ARE. , Artist

ISBN 10: 046006942X / ISBN 13: 9780460069427

Published by J.M.DENT & SONS, LONDON, 1973

About this Item

Blue Faux Morocco leather boards with black/gilt blocked title and decs. with same style Jason Image blocked to front. 215 x 145 mm approx, blue end papers, xii + 242 pp. colour frontis + 7 further full colour plates and 8 b/w line drawings by S.Van Abbe. First Printing thus 1973(Jason- series? although series name not stated but other book in same livery presently in stock and offered for sale - Gulliver's Travels. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG ( No notable shelf wear, light soiling to front board, no previous owner name or insc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROBIN HOOD THE PRINCE OF OUTLAWS A Tale of the Fourteenth Century from the "Lytell Geste"
• Publisher: J.M.DENT & SONS, LONDON
• Publication Date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 046006942X
• ISBN 13: 9780460069427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: S.VAN ABBE
• Edition: First Edition Thus
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans.

From the Inside Flap

"It is universally read, from the
cabinet council to the nursery," remarked Alexander Pope when Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. One of the unique books of world literature, Swift's masterful satire describes the astonishing voyages of one Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, to surreal kingdoms inhabited by miniature people and giants, quack philosophers and scientists, horses endowed with reason and men who behave like beasts. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels is a savage parody on man and his institutions that has captivated readers for nearly three centuries.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-
able hardbound editions of impor-
tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-
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gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.   As bestselling author and critic Allan Bloom observed: "Gulliver's Travels is an amazing rhetorical achievement. Swift had not only the judgment with which to arrive at a reasoned view of the world but the fancy by means of which he could re-create that world in a form which teaches where argument fails and which satisfies all while misleading none."