Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Jasper Britton

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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Perfect reader for the story

This is a wonderful story and very well read! Author was incredibly entertaining. Highly recommend!

A Continual Review

An hour into the narrative and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I adore satire, and Britton is marvelous. TBC

18th century satirical science fiction for adults

A long way from the typical children's adaptations! More of a time capsule giving a series of views on European society as explained to all the strange characters in strange lands.

I wouldn't really call it a novel or flowing story, but well worth the listen. Nicely read and nicely produced.

terrific reader

The reader did a wonderful job, especially with the Hooinym (sp?) portions. Brilliant! And I found this classic more engaging than I'd expected.

Bland

I don’t know whether this is boring because of the reader or it’s just worse than I remember but gosh this is boring.