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'I felt something alive moving on my left leg ... when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could. I perceived it to be a human Creature not six inches high'

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all its original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication.

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(view spoiler)[Gulliver gets shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput full of tiny people. I think the satire of their ridiculous rules and traditions reflects on what the author thinks of society. Like how a war started over the way you crack an egg and the way the boys and girls are raised. (hide spoiler)]
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(view spoiler)[Now Gulliver is stranded in a land that has the opposite and everyone is giant. He's intrigued with them at first and has fun entertaining them, but then gets in sticky situations and thinks they are dumb. He shows his patriotism when he talks about England (hide spoiler)]
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(view spoiler)[Gulliver has the worst luck with sailing during a storm lol (hide spoiler)]
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(view spoiler)[ I thought these people were going to be smart being mathematicians and astronomers, but they are just as dense as the other islands. Reading about the academy was so strange. Is the author making fun of scholars? This book is so over my head.. (hide spoiler)]
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(view spoiler)[So Gulliver goes crazy and is convinced he's a Yahoo. wtf lol is this a way of the author telling people to look in the mirror and see that your own traditions and way of life are farfetched? I don't get it (hide spoiler)]
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Wow you read fast! This book is going really slow for me, just finished chapter one...