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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (1 May 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1853260274
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853260278
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This book comes with an introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times.


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Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667, after the death of his father. A cousin of Dryden, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and for much of his early life travelled frequently between Ireland and England. Swift became increasingly occupied with Irish affairs, and wrote a great number of works including celebrated satires like ‘A Tale of a Tub' and A Modest Proposal', political pamphlets and Gulliver's Travels – all informed by his sense of the Whigs' unfair treatment of Ireland. Nearly all of his works were published anonymously, and he only received payment for Gulliver's Travels. He died, after a long illness in 1745.
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5.0 out of 5 stars misanthropic? who cares if he can write like this, 25 Aug 2000
This review is from: Gulliver's Travels (Mass Market Paperback)
this book is stunning. I am 28 and only read what i assumed was a diverting childrens yarn from boredom. since then I have read it 3 times and still laugh out loud. Swift satirises the pomposity and mendacity of man so ruthlessly. the voice of the well meaning gulliver is used so adeptly throughout. the last chapter (land of the hounyhoums) was slated in the introduction for misanthropy. I found it brilliant and the funniest part of the book. an excellent read
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5.0 out of 5 stars Witty and wry, 29 Nov 2002
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On one level, of course this is the story of your childhood. On another it is a sometimes light sometimes vicious always sharp as a razor satire on politics, science, religion, war and many other aspects of the human condition. The writer has a gift for exposing the ridiculous in many of the things we do and displaying it so it appears described but is in fact lampooned.
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1.0 out of 5 stars hidden messages are little too well hidden, 21 Oct 2008
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This review is from: Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback)
Written over 250 years ago: we are told that it is intended as a political satire and an attack on the nastier aspects of human behaviour. This particular version of the book has a considerable amount of letters , comments and criticisms written by various people since it was first published in 1726. This additional material is probably more interesting than the original stories. The significance of what the author intended to achieve by publishing the stories is lost in time and this additional material gives a useful insight into the hidden meanings in the book. It is written in ye olde English with phonetic spelling which makes an interesting contribution to the debate about the need for accurate disciplined spelling. It is hard to believe now that Swift had the book published under an assumed name as a hoax ; presumably to see how long it would take some people to realise that the stories were a practical joke. There are four stories , with Lilliput being the best known; the other three less well known. According to academics, the four stories are the same stories with the same meaning ; they are presented differently, with each story making it's message more blatantly obvious for the benefit of thick people like me. I re-read the first and fourth stories after reading the additional material. I found the Lilliput story boring and the hidden symbolism was too well hidden ; the fourth story about the Hounynhynms is more direct and therefore much easier to understand the author's message. This story contains characters which are half-man , half-ape called Yahoos. According to the additional material , these characters were inspired by a debate among the so-called gentleman scientist of the time about a possible evolutionary link between African negroes, apes and Europeans. The interesting significance of this is that it is happening 100 years before Darwin's `Origin of the Species'. About half way through the fourth story, the author lets loose a tirade of abuse about the immorality of politicians and war , lawyers and the legal/justice system and the knock-out punch comes when the author starts to refer to the human race as Yahoos. If someone were to hand you a copy of the author's criticisms of politics and war , or the lawyers and legal/justice system as printed in the fourth book; you could probably be convinced that the text was copied from one of the present-day newspapers or books. The message I get from reading this type of book is that human society has changed over the span of 250 years , but the tyranny and injustice of our human society remains unchanged. The enthusiasm shown by the British government and legal/justice system towards implementing the Human Rights Legislation and the Big Brother state surveillance shows that 250 years later the author has failed miserably to get his message across.
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