Product Description

"Gulliver's Travels" is an incisive satire that has never lost its sting - whether the work of an embittered mind or a profound comment on the Age of Reason and Nature, there is all the fascination of distorting mirrors in Swift's accounts of Lilliput and Brogdingnag, and far more than mere spleen in the saeva indignatio with which he lashes human passions and institutions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1459827 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-16
• Released on: 1996-09-16
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio Cassette

Synopsis
Written "to vex the world rather than divert it", and first published in 1726, this novel uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. It describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon.

About the Author
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667, after the death of his father. A cousin of Dryden, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and for much of his early life travelled frequently between Ireland and England. Swift became increasingly occupied with Irish affairs, and wrote a great number of works including celebrated satires like 'A Tale of a Tub' and A Modest Proposal', political pamphlets and Gulliver's Travels -- all informed by his sense of the Whigs' unfair treatment of Ireland. Nearly all of his works were published anonymously, and he only received payment for Gulliver's Travels. He died, after a long illness in 1745.

Customer Reviews

Witty and wry
On one level, of course this is the story of your childhood. On another it is a sometimes light sometimes vicious always sharp as a razor satire on politics, science, religion, war and many other aspects of the human condition. The writer has a gift for exposing the ridiculous in many of the things we do and displaying it so it appears described but is in fact lampooned.

misanthropic? who cares if he can write like this
this book is stunning. I am 28 and only read what i assumed was a diverting childrens yarn from boredom. since then I have read it 3 times and still laugh out loud. Swift satirises the pomposity and mendacity of man so ruthlessly. the voice of the well meaning gulliver is used so adeptly throughout. the last chapter (land of the hounyhoums) was slated in the introduction for misanthropy. I found it brilliant and the funniest part of the book. an excellent read

A "darn" good book
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