Gulliver's Travels (Oneworld Classics)
by Jonathan Swift | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1847490883 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1847490883 Global Overview for this book
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Jonathan Swift, born in Dublin in 1667, was a satirist, essayist, poet and cleric. He is probably best known for remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels.
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
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Journal Entry 3 by cluricaune at Armagh County Museum 🦺 in Armagh, Co. Armagh United Kingdom on Friday, March 18, 2016
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Caught this book in the Armagh Country Museum, just after the friendly guy gave me practically a lecture about the local history, it was amazing!
It is in Budapest, Hungary now, to be read. I know the story more or less from my youth, but looking forward to he original book.
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It is in Budapest, Hungary now, to be read. I know the story more or less from my youth, but looking forward to he original book.
Thank you! :)