Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift

Book Overview

Travel with Gulliver in the early 1700s as he sails to many strange make-believe worlds. Includes colorful illustrations, notes to readers and an author profile. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0866119922
• ISBN13: 9780866119924
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Playmore Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

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.

This 2002 version is lame

This 2002 "specially adapted version by Malvina G. Vogel" is lame because parts of the story have been cut out, and Gulliver's 3rd and 4th adventures are cut out as well.