SWIFT

Jonathan Swift is hillarious!! He is true to his words and expresses his beliefs about politics through gulliver. i thought the book was very good but kind of hard to follow at times. i liked the way swift tied in all of gulliver's travels, and also how swift managed to satire politics and religion and many other things of humanity. he is true to his words and i agree with many of the things that swift said in his book. for example when the Lilliputians are fighting because of which side of the egg to break off, i saw the relation to government and real wars right away. i would reccommend this book to anyone who has not read it. it is a very good look at society and governments.

There is no need for me to go into what a marvelous and timeless classic "Guliver's Travels" is. The satire, while nearly 300 hundred years old, is as fresh today as it was in the 1720s.

What I will say about this particular edition is that it is very beautifully done. (If you can get the hardcover edition instead of the softcover, all the better.) The typeset, color engravings and supplemental material in the appendices add up to an excellent edition of this classic. I highly recommend it either as a gift or as a copy for your own library.