Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.
Edited with an Introduction by Robert DeMaria, Jr.
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我在这个国家已经生活了三年,我想读者们一定希望我像别的旅行家那样能把当地居民的风俗习惯跟他们说一说;实际上这也是我主要想努力了解的东西。因为这些高贵的“慧骃”生来就具有种种美德,根本不知道理性动物身上的罪恶是怎么一回事,所以它们的伟大准则就是培养理性,一切都受理性支配。
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