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A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

Author
Jonathan Swift
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
2 hours 44 minutes
ISBN
9781802563856
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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Description

Gulliver sets out as captain of a ship, but after the mutiny of his crew and a long confinement in his cabin, he arrives in an unknown land. This land is populated by Houyhnhnms, rational-thinking horses who rule, and by Yahoos, brutish humanlike creatures who serve the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver sets about learning their language, and when he can speak he narrates his voyages to them and explains the constitution of England. He is treated with great courtesy and kindness by the horses and is enlightened by his many conversations with them and by his exposure to their noble culture.

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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