Gulliver's Travels
1995 • 240 pages
Ratings79
Average rating3.6
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Ratings79
Average rating3.6
"Gulliver's travels purports to be a travel book. It is a blend of fantasy and realism and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms"--Provided by publisher.
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It seems odd to give a rating to one of the great classics of English Literature, but there you go. I first read it about 40 years ago, and it was fun to revisit the countries Gulliver voyages to, but I was more interested this time around in his themes, and for that I really relied on the critical essays at the back of this edition and my other copy, the tattered Norton Critical Edition that I've had since that first reading . . .
I read this book finally, upto the last page, as a part of a very interesting course on 18th C literature, and I loved the insights into Swift's work the course gave me. Specially amusing was my professor's fascination with the ‘scatological fixation' that Swift shows in this work. :D
