'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most perniciousrace of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon thesurface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver findshimself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited...
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'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most perniciousrace of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon thesurface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver findshimself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited byquarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet otherswho force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag,the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the poli..tics andmorals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and itsinstitutions still resonates today.
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