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Gulliver's Travels
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Rafe Spall
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
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A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria Jr.
Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans.
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"A masterwork of irony...that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creativity of imagination." (Malcolm Bradbury)
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- Chris Martin
- 06-10-24
Cold reading.
Great book. This version has quite a lot of mistakes which occur during the reading/recording. There are many words that are read incorrectly which makes reading along difficult at times. There are also a couple of occasions where lines from the book are repeated by the reader for no apparent reason which also interrupts the overall flow of the story. The reader seems to be reading parts of the book 'cold' which makes some of the sentences difficult to understand as the overall feelings of the author are miscommunicated.
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- Damien O'Farrell
- 17-05-21
Clever but tedious after a while.
Providing that the reader accepts that Swift is sanitizing everyone, the author and reader alike, British Georgian politics, characters within and stereotypes throughout humanity, this satire should be enjoyed with a light heart. Elements are fantastic, pedantic descriptions and explanations of minutiae can be tedious. Gulliver's Travels could still be brilliant if comprised of part one only. However, without latter parts, posh British politicians wouldn't be able to flaunt their pretentious erudition and call the opposition Yahoos.
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