Gulliver's travels

by Jonathan Swift

320 pages

English language

Published Feb. 24, 2010

ISBN:: 978-0-00-735102-2
OCLC Number:: 701552956

'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.

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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.