When Gulliver finds himself washed up on the shores of the island of Lilliput inhabited by ‘little people’ and taken prisoner his life is to change forever but that is just the beginning of his story. For following his escape from Lilliput his travels take him to the huge people of Brobdingnag, the floating island of Laputa and to the land of Houynhnmland where there are horses with great virtues. The characters are wonderfully drawn, and Gulliver has a great talent for the languages of each land and his travels also provide bitter insights into human behaviour. It is in the end an uncompromising reflection of mankind in its many guises but riveting all the same and essential reading.
| Primary Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. One of the true classics, <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> by Jonathan Swift (first published in 1726) is another for the bucket list of any fans of fictional writing.<br><br>Written in four divisions, Swift portrays the novel as the memoirs of the titled character, Lemuel Gulliver. Gulliver describes his decidedly odd encounters with the even more peculiar denizens of lands foreign and as yet undiscovered, including the 6 inch high Lilliputians, the giant... Well, Giants and the super intelligent horse-race.<br><br>In much of Swifts work (this being no exception) can be found satirical references of varying form and on any number of subjects; politics, of course, along with family, science and even (more unusually for the time) religion. Many of the subjects satirically covered by Dean Jonathan Swift in <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> concern the happenings specifically of his lifetime but many still, perhaps even more than the former, are of direct concern to societies of the modern world - subjects such as the issues of power both separately and including that pertaining to mankind's on-going technological advancement.<br><br>Without a doubt one of our favourite novels of all time <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> should be enjoyed by both the young and old and will undoubtedly be, for us at least, a book to pick up over and over.
Gulliver's Travels features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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Gulliver's Travels was written by Jonathan Swift and published by Forgotten Books
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