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As Samuel Johnson stated, Gulliver's Travels is a work "so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement." One must remember that at the time of Gulliver's Travels, readers had rarely encountered prose fiction in the form of stories, let along the fantastical stories and adventures of Gulliver. They didn't quite know how to respond.
In the last chapter of the this book, its purpose is laid out to the reader, that Swift's "principal Design was to info ...more
In the last chapter of the this book, its purpose is laid out to the reader, that Swift's "principal Design was to info ...more
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It's very seldom that I look so forward to finishing a book... ordinarily, I would have just abandoned it. However, this being one of the "all-time must read" classics, I was determined to power through it.
This book is, of course, an indictment on the politics and people of Swift's time, which he had to veil in satire in order to protect himself. However, the book has just not aged very well. I did enjoy parts of the book when he describes the foibles of society (I found his inclusion of lawyers ...more
This book is, of course, an indictment on the politics and people of Swift's time, which he had to veil in satire in order to protect himself. However, the book has just not aged very well. I did enjoy parts of the book when he describes the foibles of society (I found his inclusion of lawyers ...more
I would give this book zero stars if I could. It was gross and inappropriate and just plain unentertaining. I absolutely hated reading it.
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