Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce

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Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce

Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce

2018-02-20 Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce

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Niles Crane in the hit TV series Frasier. Now, he brings the same wit and charming arrogance to his Signature Classics performance of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.More than just a mock travel book and fabulous adventure, Gulliver's Travels is a character study and social satire that skewers politics, science, religion, philosophy, and pretentiousness with a bite and resonance that remains as fresh today as the day it was published. Four-time Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce is famous for playing the lovably self-important Dr. And stay tuned for more one-of-a-kind performances from actors Leelee Sobiesky, Casey Affleck, Tim Curry, and more, only from Audible Signature Classics.. Maybe that's why it hasn't been out of print in nearly 300 years.Set sail with David Hyde Pierce for a smart, fun, new Gulliver's Travels experience that's unlike any other

Amazon Customer said cheap edition of great book. This printing seems to be publish on demand. It is a large format book, but with regular (not large) type within very tight margins. This lets them fit a long book into a thin volume, but it is still quite readable. It is a shame there isn't more space between the lines, as this is a good edition for annotating. There is no copyright page, which I suspect is legally required.. "Bad" according to Tom Sparkman. This book does not have the full text since it only includes books one and two. It is also heavily censored, excluding whole paragraphs otherwise present in the audiobook. I would recommend the gutenberg library copy over this one since they are both free. Review of the Norton Critical Edition - Text, Context, and Criticism majormajormajormajor While other reviews seem focused on Swift's original novel, it would seem to me that anyone reading the reviews for this particular edition would be far more interested in the quality of the contents of the Norton Critical Edition, rather than the text itself. The text, after all, is a seminal classic satire, and even the worst printing and editing would find it very difficult to obscure it. Swift is brilliant, but that is not the focus of this review. Rather, I will be