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Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who.]
Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by friends and battered by enemies - escape is his ...more
Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who.]
Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by friends and battered by enemies - escape is his ...more
I like to think that at heart Swift was a humanist and that through Gulliver's Travels he tries to show us that although we might be Gulliver, Dutch pirates or a kind Portuguese ship captain we will never reach the grotesque of the Lilliput, Brobdingnag or Laputa, not even that of the Yahoos and Houyhnhnms as long as we hold fast to our humanity. Overall wonderful book.
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Absolutely delightful.
Apr 25, 2010
Oana
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