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| Title | : | Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings |
| Author | : | Jonathan Swift |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 0 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1984 by Turtleback Books (first published November 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Classics. Literature. Fiction. Academic. School. Cultural. Ireland. Politics |
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| Original Title: | Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings |
| ISBN: | 080851959X (ISBN13: 9780808519591) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 5389 Users | 66 ReviewsCritique About Books Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
I picked up this collection because I wanted to read A Modest Proposal. It's one of those must-reads, and only nine pages long. Written in 1729, it's a bitingly satirical economic solution to the problem of poverty among Irish families with too many mouths to feed. Quite funny in some places, unless you're a very literal person, in which case you'll find it gruesome. Here's a example: "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child wellA Bantam pb from 1962, reprint 1981. Some of this stuff was written in 1697. Its ôld. Into the gutter left and right about two-letters worth of a span are nearly illegible. But for fifty coppers, I knew what I was getting. One makes due. And plans for a better annotated, more nicely bound edition in ones future.The first piece, popularly known as Gullivers Travels, I have failed to review elsewhere. I hesitate to link to that Review knowing that such appearance of self-promotion is and ought to
Read this once or twice growing up; now re-reading it for a library book club I'm in. By reading this, I mean Gulliver's Travels - not the essays (other than A Modest Proposal, which I did re-read).From previous readings, I mostly remembered Gulliver going to Lilliput, where he was the huge guy; then going to Brobdingnag (sp?), where he was the tiny guy, and then there being a land with talking horses but no details from that stayed with me. I hadn't remembered a flying island or any of
There was some interesting social and political commentary in here, especially in Parts III and IV. And I appreciated that. And I know this complaint sort of is beside the point, but it's my honest complaint and I'm going to state it. Why the hell did this guy ever get married and have kids? He always goes on adventures because he apparently can't stand to be at home for more than a couple of months at a time and craves the open seas. And when he's on these adventures, he never seems to miss his
This was a bit of a struggle. At some point it came close to being more than I could handle; I began to get dispirited and discouraged, my reading slowing to a crawl as I got lost in its labyrinthine passages and suffocated under a veritable deluge of description/exposition. Thankfully I rallied, & in the end raced over the finish line as the book itself took on a whole new dimension of profundity in its final section. Far more than the imaginative adventure story parody its reputation would
It's a wonderful book. At first, I didn't like it but that was because I was reading it as an adventure book and not as a satire. This book is a satire criticizing scientists, philosophers and the politicians of then England. AMAZING!
Will the real Gulliver please stand up?Is it an authentic Gulliver experience to read the children's picture book?Or is it a more genuine experience to read it, unedited, without pictures, on a Kindle?I read both this week. I liked the children's version better. The pictures were fun and the edited text included the best of the original and omitted the extraneous material that seemed irrelevant to the heart of the book. I'm happy I read the original as well as the edited version. I can see the
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