Gulliver's Travels (Young Reading (Series 2)) (3.21 Young Reading Series Two with Audio CD)

By Jonathan Swift and Gill Harvey

Book Overview

This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text-the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746080697
• ISBN13: 9780746080696
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.4" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

A closet libertarian.

It is not Jonathan Swift’s fault that the writing is archaic. This may be overlooked if it were not so redundant and trivial. It can easily put you to sleep. We all know that these stories are supposed to be a thin veil for an agenda. Everyone from H. G. Wells to Ayn Rand hit you over the head with their agenda from the first. But no, Jonathan rattles with 10 pages to describe what is in his pockets, including his hidden pocket. (Who Cares?) And the book is filled with mundane descriptions. I think he is using this to flesh out what would be a 25-page manifesto. It is not until you get halfway through the book that, except for a few snide remarks about kings, he finally coughs up his point. “…, Whether a private man’s house might not be better defended by himself, his children, and family, than by half-a-dozen rascals, picked up at a venture in the streets for small wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats?” He goes on to pick on just about all the politics and ventures of England at the time. Paranoid readers can see the parallels between the book and today’s news. However, if it is that important, then dump Swift and just watch the news. Anyhow, it is not worth the time to read this book unless you are interested in someone who defecates at the end of his chain and tells about it in detail.