I viaggi di Gulliver

imagine if you lived in the 1700s and this was like...the most fun book available. screaming and crying. so grateful to live in a time when the only reason i read this book is because its cover is pretty, and not because i live a life of suffering and no running water and my idea of a raging good time Leggi tutto

Okay, I didn't finish this sucker. It was poor. I was kind of shocked. I was thinking why does no one point out that this is a giant rip off of Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Honey I Blew Up the Kid? It's painfully obvious. I don't see why this Danial Defoe mope has not had his ass sued, maybe he avoid Leggi tutto

Tiny manifestations of human social models One of the earliest forms of satire, just as Twains Yankee and Cervantes Don Quichote, but not that good https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... That´s simply because Swift isn´t such a talented, solid writer as Cervan Leggi tutto

Lemuel Gulliver was the first who discovered the theory of relativity: he comprehended that everything in the world is relative therefore while amongst Lilliputians he is a giant, amongst Brobdingnagians he is a midget. Eccentricity excellently stands against the erosion of time – much better than an Leggi tutto

هي مجموعة صفعات متتالية على وجه البشرية جمعاء..فعندما ترفضك الجياد الناطقة بلطف..لانها اكثر منك تحضرا و رشدا..اذن فلتعد يا "جاليفر "من رحلاتك الاربعة..حزينا كسيرالهذه الروايات مكانة خاصة في قلبي..فهي أول رحلاتي الطويلة لعالم الفانتازيا والخيال بلا حدود..فمن خلال الترجمة الرشيقة للعبقري كامل الكيلاني Leggi tutto

"The rats on board carried away one of my sheep;" "Care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man’s goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning;" It seems that I had a completely incorrect opinion of what Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel

“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.” Swift’s masterpiece, brilliant satire Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. Swift lived in the 18th century, times of great societal changes when the legacy of Enlightenmen Leggi tutto