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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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When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible and unbelievable misadventures awaiting. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Liliput--where the people are only six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giants called the Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! he travels to Lapauta, a city that floats in the city, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. his final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos--a brutish race of subhumans--and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms.

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