Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

325 pages

English language

Published Feb. 24, 2012 by Transatlantic Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-908533-09-8
OCLC Number:: 822595937

Ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver is stranded on the island of Lilliput after his boat founders. In the first of many weird and wonderful adventures he meets a diminutive people prepared to wage war over the correct way to crack an egg. The castaway also visits a land full of giants, with wasps the size of partridges; a floating island where the best brains are engaged in trying to extract sunshine from cucumbers; and a land of civilized, rational-minded horses who show up the repulsive, humanlike Yahoos in a very bad light. Both a children's fantasy classic and a scabrous satire on politicians, philosophers, scientists -- indeed, humanity itself -- Gulliver's Travels is as fresh, amusing and bitingly savage today as it was when published to wide acclaim almost three centuries ago. -- from publisher.

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StoryDragon reviewed Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Nice, but more notes than pages.

4 stars

It was quite a nice book to read. It is a satire, though I am quite sure that I did not notice everything. Actually, if it weren't for the introduction and notes, I would not have recognized a lot of things. But that is probably logical, since there are more notes than pages...

PhiTech reviewed Los viajes de Gulliver by Jonathan Swift (Libro de bolsillo)

Review of 'Los viajes de Gulliver' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Aquel que pensó que esto era literatura infantil, debería arden en llamas.

Uno de lo mejores libros y antecesor de muchos otros. Prosa impecable y sátira acertada. Divertido y curioso a la par sin descuidar su propósito crítico.

Imperdible.