A man travels the world and has quite an adventure.
Review:
This hilarious biting commentary overflows with wit. It is a very historical novel, you must remember when reading it that it was written at a time when people (First Nations) were literally exhibited at world fairs where people paid money to gawk at them. The writing is a pleasure to read (written back in the day when reading required an actual education and the English language was spoken properly) and the story is highly entertaining. Gulliver is developed into a character who you can't help but love and hate and love to hate, the story centres around his many misadventures. It is a short and hilarious parody of the human complex, everyone should read it probably, at least the smart people.
7/10
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old"
"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."
If you enjoyed this check out any of the authors on this list:
Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, John Arbuthnot, Delarivier Manley, John Gay (playwright), Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding.
All Satirical authors from the same generation.
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