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Gulliver's Travels
Author: | Jonathan Swift |
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Benjamin Motte, 1726 |
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Book Type: | Novel |
Genre: | Fantasy |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Comic Fantasy Fantasy of Manners Fairytale Fantasy |
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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. An extraordinarily 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.
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