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    Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels
    Audiobook11 hours

    Gulliver's Travels

    Written by Jonathan Swift

    Narrated by Misty Thomas

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    Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnm and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

    It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9781982711351
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    Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. Although he spent most of his childhood in Ireland, he considered himself English, and, aged twenty-one, moved to England, where he found employment as secretary to the diplomat Sir William Temple. On Temple's death in 1699, Swift returned to Dublin to pursue a career in the Church. By this time he was also publishing in a variety of genres, and between 1704 and 1729 he produced a string of brilliant satires, of which Gulliver's Travels is the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; he was buried there when he died in 1745.

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      It was good. The reader took some getting used too.