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A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan

Author
Jonathan Swift
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
2 hours 12 minutes
ISBN
9781802563849
Published
15 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Gulliver
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Swift
  • Jonathan Swift
  • satire
  • comedy
  • human nature
  • humour
  • voyages
  • adventure stories

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Gulliver falls among floating theorists, useless projects, summoned kings who disappoint, and immortals who prove age is no wisdom. Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, then home by Japan. Spoken as satire when cleverness loses the ground under its feet.

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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