Publisher's Synopsis
The wanderer Lemuel Gulliver and the Lilliputians, the crude oil giants of Brobdingnag, the abstraction of Laputa The encounter between the scientist, the philosopher Houyhnhnms and the barbaric Yahoo (Yahoos) provided him with new and profound insights into human behavior. Swift's wonderful and subversive book is still extremely important in our age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.Dr. M. Dodge Holmes, an English teacher at William Penn High School in Philadelphia, divided Jonathan Swift's original work into three parts. "In this volume, many long words have been shortened, and some parts of the book that only adults can understand and like have been omitted.
