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  • If you understand going into Gulliver that it's satirical, you'll probably enjoy it. If you think of it as just an interesting adventure story, it will bore you to death. I'm a science studies student, so I was reading for Swift's satire on the Royal Society and other such things.
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    If you understand going into Gulliver that it's satirical, you'll probably enjoy it. If you think of it as just an interesting adventure story, it will bore you to death. I'm a science studies student, so I was reading for Swift's satire on the Royal Society and other such things.
    Taken as a whole, the book is a bit daunting. Luckily it's broken up into 4 parts, so I took it bit by bit. It was enjoyable, but probably not something I'd read again - at least not in its entirety.

    

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  • Foreword by Marcus Cunliffe.

    

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• ― Brian Hamilton said on May 7, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's
encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our
gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.

The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions and whose subtle changes contribute
to the reader's uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's role playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver.

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