Gulliver's Travels

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Jonathan Swift, Shantal Lopez: Gulliver's Travels (2016, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

176 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2016 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

ISBN:
978-1-5352-5649-0
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4 stars (19 reviews)

For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. The people of these countries, with all their curiously human failings, come to life in vivid illustrations. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too.--GOODREADS

Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of traveling the world. But when a violent storm claims his ship and casts him adrift among uncharted lands, he is taken to places that he could not even dream of. Traveling to the nation of Lilliput, where the inhabitants measure just centimeters tall, and to Brobdingnag, where they tower into the sky like giants, Gulliver voyages to an island floating above the clouds, visits a race of immortals, and finds himself stranded in a land ruled by horses.

Face to face with warring armies and power-hungry kings, each new journey …

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Review of "Gulliver's Travels" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

গালিভার'স ট্রাভেলস ছোটবেলায় যখন পড়েছি, শিশুপাঠ্য হিসেবে পড়েছি অর্থাৎ চারটি অভিযানের প্রথম দুটি। কয়েকদিন আগে ভারি ভারি বই থেকে হালকা কিছু পড়তে গুডরিডসের স্যাটায়ার জঁরায় ঢুঁ দিলাম। দেখি, গালিভার্স ট্রাভেলস। আষাঢ়ে গল্প বলা যায়, কিন্তু স্যাটায়ার! তো ভাবলাম, এমনিও পুরোটা পড়িনি, শুরু করা যাক!

ফিকশনের রিভিউয়ের বড় সমস্যা হচ্ছে স্পয়লার দেওয়ার সম্ভাবনা। কোনো কাহিনী না বলেও এটুকু বলা যায় বইয়ের তৃতীয় যাত্রাটি আমার সবচেয়ে পছন্দের। প্লেটোর ফিলোসফার কিং ও তার রাজ্যের একটা ভালো ক্যারিকেচার পাওয়া যায়।

তা বাদে সারা বইতে রাজনীতি, অর্থনীতি, ধর্ম ও বিচারব্যবস্থা এবং মোটের ওপর মানুষের বহুবিধ হিপোক্রেসী নিয়ে বেশ ভালোরকমের স্যাটায়ার আছে।

Review of "Gulliver's Travels" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Gulliver's Travels is a masterful piece of satire and one of the masterful works of Western literature. Despite this, it seems that it is being lost to tides of ennui and a culture determined to undermine and belittle this masterpiece.

Going into reading this book, one would expect something of a children's story. That is how it has been presented for at least a century now, with the focus on Gulliver's adventure in Lilliput where he encounters a civilization in miniature. Aside from committing the absurd mistake of treating the Gulliver's Travels as if it were called Gulliver's Travel, this view ignores any sort of social commentary on human society, both in general and in Swift's time. It is also incomplete without his other travels where he visits the gargantuan Brobdignagians, the scientific minded Laputans, the necromatic Glubbdubdrib magician, the unfortunate immortals of Luggnagg, and the horse beings known as …

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Subjects

  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Fiction, satire