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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407085593
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Gulliver's Travels





'Among the six indispensable books in world literature' George Orwell

'Among the six indispensable books in world literature' George Orwell

In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swift's tough, filthy and incisive satire has much to say about the state of the world today and is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407085593
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

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Praise for Gulliver's Travels

Among the six indispensable books in world literature

George Orwell

Everyone standing for political office . . . should have a compulsory examination in Gulliver's Travels

Michael Foot

It has entered the iconography of western culture as perhaps no other single novel, giving words to the English language and inspiring remarkably diverse acts of homage... A political comedy, an existentialist meditation, a bleak thriller about an outsider caught between worlds...at the heart of Swift's masterwork is an ennobling sadness, a lament for a world gone mad

Joseph O'Connor, Guardian

It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery

John Gay (author of The Beggar's Opera)

Swift's world-famous satire was an instant bestseller...his vision is dark, often verging on the obscene

Robert McCrum, Guardian
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