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A satirical look at different kinds of societies, as represented by the Lilliputians, the Laputans, the Brobdinagians, and the Houyhnhnms. In each place, he sees one of the essential ideas of utopian society put into practice for good or bad.
There's much more here than you'd expect from popular culture representations of Gulliver - this is a sharp satire of types of government and cultures, and is not flattering to human civilization. Definitely worth a read. ...more
There's much more here than you'd expect from popular culture representations of Gulliver - this is a sharp satire of types of government and cultures, and is not flattering to human civilization. Definitely worth a read. ...more
Mar 03, 2009
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