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Title: Gulliver's Travels (Great Illustrated Classics) by Jonathan Swift, Malvina G. Vogel, Pablo Marcos, Johnathon Smith ISBN: 1-57765-818-3 Publisher: Abdo & Daughters Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.35 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (83 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The greatest satirical novel ever
Comment: Gulliver's Travels is an excellent book. In it Swift satirizes what he thought were the foibles of his time, in politics, religion, science, and society. In Part One Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on Lilliput where the inhabitants are only 6 inches tall. The rivalry between Britain and France is there satirized. In Part Two he is marooned on the subcontinent of Brobdingnag where the inhabitants are giants. The insignificance of many of mankind's achievements are there satirized. Next in Part Three Gulliver is taken aboard the floating island of Laputa, where Swift takes the opportunity to satirize medicine and science altogether - incredibly Swift did not make up the crazy experiments he describes; all were sponsored at one time or another by the Royal Society. Finally in Part Four Gulliver is marooned by mutineers on the island of the Houyhnhynms, in which Swift takes his parting shot at human society - presenting them in degraded form as the Yahoos. Most people read no further in the book than Brobdingnag - I urge you to read the rest.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Fantasy World Brought To Life in a Book
Comment: Gulliver is a surgeon whose adventures begin when he decides to go out to sea. He travels from island to island where he discovers a variety of strange new people and creatures. He meets people who are six inches tall to people who are sixty feet tall to horses that act like humans. Each place has something new and different that Gulliver has never layed eyes on. He comes across many customs and ways of living thats he finds to be bizarre and peculiar. When Gulliver encounters the Houyhnhnms he thinks to himself how intelligent they are. He finds them to be the greatest creatures on Earth and can't believe he is a disgraceful so called "Yahoo". I think Johnathan Swift is a very talented writer. To have a book published so many years ago and to have it still be a classic is amazing. To me this book doesn't seem to be a book that a teenager would enjoy. Although I would recomend it to anyone that enjoys the unexplainable fantasy world.
Rating: 3
Summary: Proceed with caution.
Comment: It is only fair that those unfamiliar with this work are warned of its 18th century prose, which may distract, if not exceedingly annoy, some readers.
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Title: Robinson Crusoe (Dover Thrift Editions) by Daniel Defoe ISBN: 0486404277 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 02 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ISBN: 0812580036 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne ISBN: 0812550927 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Treasure Island (Signet Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson, New American Library Signet ISBN: 0451527046 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss ISBN: 0440415942 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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