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Gulliver's Travels
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Summary
Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best seller when it was first published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swift’s day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic, and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece, whose powerful satire continues to strike home.
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- SEAN HOLDEN
- 20-02-16
Beautifully entertaining
Where does Gulliver's Travels rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Really well delivered and fully in tune with the novel that lifts the veneer of political sophistication, 18th Century, 19th Century 21st Century, any century, to show the folly and crude self interest underneath. Best of all it's good fun.
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- Shiraazi
- 10-01-18
Timeless classic
Loved all distinct and unique adventures in this wonderful classic. It was difficult to stop listening.
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- Mr E M J Fitzpatrick
- 06-02-23
An interesting story
Took me nearly to the end of the story to get ‘into it,’ but so glad I persevered. Thought provoking.
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- ne5566
- 28-10-17
Brilliant!
Jasper Britton narrates this wonderfully and I was particularly amused by his creative impersonation of the Houyhnhms. Superficially, the narrative is entertaining (and even of interest to children) but the fantastical masks a complex text that engages numerous political and philosophical themes of concern to the 16th century and to the Enlightenment in particular. Gulliver's Travels can be both frivolous entertainment and the subject of much deeper inquiry and as such is an intellectual investment.
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- Nima
- 16-07-22
Excellent narration
I really enjoyed this book. The narration is very good especially the last section regarding Houyhnhnms. It’s hilarious!
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-02-18
A TRUE CLASSIC
I loved the delivery and I loved the story too. My one criticism would be that Swift tends to labour his point somewhat in places. This is the reason for 4 stars instead of 5 but his clwvwr satire makes it atill worth the read.
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- Eva Hnizdo
- 23-04-23
Brilliant and brave !
Brilliant. Witty, clever, well read. My favourite audiobook this year.Now I might read it again. I read it in Czech several time as a young teenager and loved it, too. But only an adult who knows England can understand it properly. England that gave me political asylum and that is my home now. And despite some negative aspects of history,a country where this critical book was published in 18 th century has an admirable tradition of freedom.
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- nigel tuck
- 03-07-16
Not as good as I thought it would be
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For many years I have always wanted to read this book. However having now listened to it I can say I found it actually rather boring in a lot of places and found myself not really listening to it all. Well performed but the story was just not engaging.
Would you recommend Gulliver's Travels to your friends? Why or why not?
No
It was a rather tedious book
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- Joe Double
- 05-05-23
Great way to experience the book
The narrator really brings the material alive. The tale is a pretty on-the-nose satire for the most part, heavier on that than on fleshing out the lands described. Which is interesting in its own way as a look into the thinking of the time and critical takes on it, but satire taking aim at what are now mostly very antiquated beliefs winds up less humorous than it presumably was at the time.
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- 14-02-15
Totally gripped by the story and the narration.
This was a fantastically narrated story of a book about a misanthropic traveller who uses his new found civilizations as metaphors for the court, animal welfare and the environment.
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