Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

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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.

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tauruseducation | Jun 4, 2013 |

Both writings are incredible. Swift was terrifically imaginative and could be just as terrifically witty, ironic and sarcastic. When I was little and read my kids' versions of Gulliver's Travels, I had no clue what lay under the surface story. Now I do, and I love it just as much. (

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