Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - S. F./Fantasy" |
| Pages: | 351 |
| Year of Publication: | 1726 |
| Date Read: | 02/28/1993 |
| Notes: | The first, Lilliput, is populated by miniature people who fight wars over the proper way to break an egg. The second, Brobdingnag, is inhabited by giants who put Gulliver on display as a curiosity. The third consists of a kingdom governed by a king who lives on a floating island; the kingdom also contains an academy of scientists performing futile experiments, such as trying to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. The fourth is a society in which human-like creatures called Yahoos are made to serve their horse-like superiors, the Houyhnhnms. COMMENTS — Jonathan Swift said Gulliver’s Travels was designed “to vex the world rather than divert it.” |
| My Rating: | 6 |