Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
It is a classic fictional book absolutely filled with satire. Swift has quite a gift of making all the adventures seem both real and completely ridiculous. The languages he created for each voyage can be difficult to understand because they are so bizarre (I'm not sure if they are derived from any real languages). Gulliver goes on four voyages to different lands and countries. The first is the land of Liliput, where all the residents are only a few inches tall. Then his second voyage takes Gulliver to the land of Brobdingnag, where the residents tower over Gulliver. The third voyage leads leads him to an island in the clouds, and the fourth takes him to the land of the Houhynms (sp?) All in all, it was a fascinating book that most people may consider fiction and others consider satire.
In the Signet Classics copy that I own, the introduction and afterword give insight onto Jonathan Swift's life and writing, especially on the way he wrote Gulliver's Travels.
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I felt the same way! I enjoyed this book while in college. I had, of course, heard of the book but had never attempted to read it in it's entirety before. What a treat it was!the_book_nerd_1997 wrote: ↑10 Mar 2016, 23:04 Swift has quite a gift of making all the adventures seem both real and completely ridiculous.