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Loading... Gulliver's Travels (Wordsworth Classics)by Jonathan Swift
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The adventures of Gulliver on his voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, etc. Hey, man! It's Gulliver's Travels! How bad could it be? For something written in 1735, the humor is surprisingly applicable to today's audience. It is the tale of Lemuel Gulliver's journeys to several distant lands and is rife with hilarious satire and biting wit. I particularly enjoyed his descriptions of English government. I was also amazed at how much influence on modern language it's had, from lilliputian to big-endian. There are so-called classics of which I don't understand the attribution, but this is one comedy that is sure to be timeless as long as there are human societies. This book is about travels of Gulliver, the main character of this book. Gulliver traveled two strange place. One is the country where very small people live and the other is the country where very big people live. It is written that how Gulliver spend in each country meeting his match. This story is a rhal Gulliver's travels. The story that I have even heard was obviously nothing like this story. I think this is very interesting. The storyline is creative. When I read this book, I feel like being in this book and watch at Gulliver nearby! I did enjoy the book, though it took a while to get going. I think the biggest issue for me was my lack of background knowledge of that era, even with the endnotes, some references were lost on me. Reading it as a look at different types of society though did interest me.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Reviewing a Classic in a Modern Context
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0141439491, Paperback)Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.Edited with an Introduction by Robert DeMaria, Jr. (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:45:14 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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