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Gulliver's Travels

Author
Jonathan Swift
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
9 hours 21 minutes
ISBN
9781802560190
Published
16 August 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • exploration
  • satire
  • adventure
  • human nature
  • Lilliputians
  • Brobdingnagians
  • Houyhnhnms
  • Yahoos
  • critique
  • society

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Description

Jonathan Swift invites readers on an unforgettable journey with Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon whose adventures span fantastical realms. Encountering societies from the minuscule Lilliputians to the towering Brobdingnagians, and the rational Houyhnhnms to the barbaric Yahoos, Gulliver's experiences satirize the eccentricities and defects of human civilization. Swift's biting humor and insightful critique craft a timeless exploration of humanity's virtues and vices.

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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