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A Voyage to Brobdingnag

Author
Jonathan Swift
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
2 hours 26 minutes
ISBN
9781802563832
Published
14 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Gulliver
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Swift
  • Jonathan Swift
  • satire
  • comedy
  • human nature
  • humour
  • voyages
  • adventure stories

Description

After staying in England with his wife and family for two months, Gulliver undertakes his next sea voyage, which takes him to a land of giants called Brobdingnag. Here, a field worker discovers him. The farmer initially treats him as little more than an animal, keeping him for amusement. The farmer eventually sells Gulliver to the queen, who makes him a courtly diversion and is entertained by his musical talents. Social life is easy for Gulliver after his discovery by the court, but not particularly enjoyable. Gulliver is often repulsed by the physicality of the Brobdingnagians, whose ordinary flaws are many times magnified by their huge size.

Author

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) wrote Gulliver's Travels, a children's book that is not, and a satire that still bites the hand that reads it. An Anglo-Irish dean of St Patrick's, he spent a life between London power and Dublin grievance, sharpening pamphlets until they cut. The Modest Proposal is a joke with no laugh; the Travels look like adventure until the Houyhnhnms arrive. Ten titles here, and the anger has not gone off.

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