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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift
Narrated by: Hugh Laurie
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Penguin Classics presents Jonathan Swift's inventive classic, Gulliver's Travels, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Hugh Laurie, star of the hit TV series House.

'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'

A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophising horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for ever. Swift's classic of 1726 portrays mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with a comical yet uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening.

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loved the performance although the story overall is rather an odd one. i enjoyed the book, and it was reccomended to me so i gave it a go.

performed well

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Great reading by Laurie. But the script is excessively edited, differs from original slightly. It tends to cut out a lot of the specifics and elaborations out as well as the more 'controversial' material.

well cast narrator

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superb classic, clever and amusing, read clearly and wittily by Hugh Laurie at his best.

a literary gem indeed!

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It was a good reading however it misses out a lot of information from the exact edition of the book and is difficult to listen too alongside reading it.

Okay but misses a lot of information

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Ho acquistato questo audiolibro perché avevo la medesima edizione della Penguin. Purtroppo l’attore salta intere frasi e non è facile seguire sul libro. Che delusione!

Che delusione

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