Why Jonathan Swift wanted to 'vex the world' with Gulliver's Travels
- Written by Ian Higgins, Reader in English, Australian National University
An ad for cotton thread drawing on the scene in Gulliver's Travels in which Gulliver is tied down by Liliputians. Wikimedia
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Pick up Gulliver’s Travels expecting a children’s book or a novel and you will be unpleasantly surprised. Originally published as...
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