Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings » (1st Edition)

Alan J. Richardson is professor and chair of the accounting area at the Schulich School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. from Queen's University and is an FCGA and Life Member of the Certified General Accountants Association of Ontario. He was the founding editor of "Canadian Accounting Perspectives" and currently sits on the editorial boards of ten academic journals. His research focuses on the regulation of audit practice rights. He has published in "Accounting Organizations and Society", "Contemporary Accou

Guliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was read "from Cabinet-council to the Nursery". Written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) it was and still is one of the greatest satires written on human nature.

Captain Lemuel Gulliver takes voyages that end up at four fantastic places. The Lilliputians are only six inches tall. The land of Brobdingnag is populated with beings over sixty feet tall. He also visits a series of lands peopled by the most impratical groups. Lastly he visits a land ruled by horses where men are the laboring brutes.

Guliver's Travels was rated by George Orwell as one of the six most indispensable books in the world.

About This Series Gulliver's Travels: Colonial Modernity Satirized Robert J. Griffin, A Note on the Texts I. Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings Gulliver's Travels A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture The Drapier's First Letter to the Shopkeepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Coommon People of Ireland Letter IV. To the Whole People of Ireland A Short View of the State of Ireland A Modest Proposal Swift's Poems "An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet" "The Bubble" "Prometheus" "Whitshe