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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Gulliver's Travels

Author
Jonathan Swift
Narrator
Lizzie Driver
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Publish Date
4 January 2017
Run Time
11 hours 13 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Satirical fiction & parodies, Classic fiction, Historical adventure fiction
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When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published shortly after Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’, it offers a very different view on humankind than Defoe’s optimistic account, poking fun and in doing so opening the door for wider discussions.

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Author
Jonathan Swift
Narrator
Lizzie Driver
Duration
11 hours 13 minutes
Release Date
4 January 2017
ISBN
9789176391907
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Genre
Satirical fiction & parodies, Classic fiction, Historical adventure fiction

Synopsis

When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published shortly after Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’, it offers a very different view on humankind than Defoe’s optimistic account, poking fun and in doing so opening the door for wider discussions. -

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