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02572aim a2200445Ia 4500 001 8614B3DA643511E1B6A7E1906AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20161106135541 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 100515s2007 orunnnn f n eng d 020 $a 1441764119 020 $a 9781441764119 028 01 $a ZE188 028 01 $a Z188 035 $a (OCoLC)617565621 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d SILO $d IHI $d SILO 100 1 $a Swift, Jonathan, $d 1667-1745. 245 1 $a Gulliver's travels $h [sound recording] / $c Jonathan Swift. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [Ashland, OR] : $b Blackstone Audio Inc, $c 2007. 300 $a 10 sound discs (12 hours) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact discs. 500 $a Originally published in 1726. 511 0 $a Read by Pamela Garelick. 520 $a This enduring classic tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon who becomes a castaway in strange and faraway lands. Shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, he encounters the six-inch-high Lilliputians, whose petty wars, civil strife, and vanities are human follies so reduced in scale as to be rendered ridiculous. From there he travels on to Brobdingnag, where he finds himself surrounded by crude giants who cannot appreciate his abstract intellect and prefer to display him as a curiosity. Further voyages take Gulliver to the floating island of Laputa, a land of intellectuals who are ignorant of practical life, and to the Island of Sorcerers, who share with him the lies of history. Finally, he visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, a race of wise and gentle horses served by degenerate human-like creatures. Gulliver's travels are entertaining adventures that also offer him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Both an amusing fantasy and a devastating satire of society, Gulliver's Travels is as witty and relevant in our own age of hypocrisy and irony as it was in Swift's eighteenth century. 650 0 $a Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Voyages, Imaginary $v Early works to 1800. 650 0 $a Travelers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Satire. 650 0 $a Fantasy fiction. 650 0 $a Audiobooks. 941 $a 6 945 $a cdab 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20170725010829.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418081144.0 952 $l JMPC081 $d 20170403140013.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170307014813.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202061140.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20140115011120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8614B3DA643511E1B6A7E1906AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search