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Gulliver's Travels: SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic (Unabridged)
Jonathan Swift · 2017 · 226 pages
Swift's masterful satire is as entertaining today as it was when first published in 1726. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels has captivated readers for nearly three centuries.
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
“Gulliver's Travels by Swift, to learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos.”↗

Guillermo Del Toro
“"Book: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. A profound book: satyrical, moving and magical. Every adventure illuminating the human condition"”↗

Alice Walker
“I was 11 when I read it and it encouraged me to believe the world was large, fascinating, and with incredibly interesting creatures in it! And I have discovered this to be true! So when I fall in love, for instance, it is never an impediment that the object of my affections might be, or seem to others to be, odd.”↗

Stewart Brand
“For me, the best Folio Society books are: Aubrey-Maturin series, Patrick O'Brien (20 books) DUNE, Frank Herbert EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, Michael Chabon GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift FINNEGANS WAKE & ULYSSES, James Joyce”↗




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