Gulliver's Travels Audiobook on CD
Narrated By: Rebecca K. Reynolds
Edited By: Martin Woodside
Stock No: WW912574
Gulliver's Travels Audiobook on CD                        -     Narrated By: Rebecca K. Reynolds
    Edited By: Martin Woodside
    By: Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels Audiobook on CD

Narrated By: Rebecca K. Reynolds
Edited By: Martin Woodside
Oasis Audio / 2019 / Compact disc

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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.
In Gulliver's Travels, Audiobook on CD, by Jonathan Swift and narrator Rebecca K. Reynolds, this classic story has been rewritten specifically with a younger audience in mind. The story is written through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, which takes you on a journey to four obscure and sensational lands. Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, where the natives are giant, and Gulliver is small; Laputa, the ruined yet magical country, home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses that are worthier than the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe. Audiobook in Compact Disc format.

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Title: Gulliver's Travels Audiobook on CD
By: Jonathan Swift
Narrated By: Rebecca K. Reynolds
Format: Compact disc
Vendor: Oasis Audio
Publication Date: 2019
Weight: 4 ounces
ISBN: 1640912576
ISBN-13: 9781640912571
Ages: 7-9
Series: Classic Starts
Stock No: WW912574

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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.

Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift’s unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe.

Author Bio

Apparently doomed to an obscure Anglican parsonage in Laracor, Ireland, even after he had written his anonymous masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub (c.1696), Swift turned a political mission to England from the Irish Protestant clergy into an avenue to prominence as the chief propagandist for the Tory government. His exhilaration at achieving importance in his forties appears engagingly in his Journal to Stella (1710--13), addressed to Esther Johnson, a young protegee for whom Swift felt more warmth than for anyone else in his long life. At the death of Queen Anne and the fall of the Tories in 1714, Swift became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. In Ireland, which he considered exile from a life of power and intellectual activity in London, Swift found time to defend his oppressed compatriots, sometimes in such contraband essays as his Drapier's Letters (1724), and sometimes in such short mordant pieces as the famous A Modest Proposal (1729); and there he wrote perhaps the greatest work of his time, Gulliver's Travels (1726). Using his characteristic device of the persona (a developed and sometimes satirized narrator, such as the anonymous hack writer of A Tale of a Tub or Isaac Bickerstaff in Predictions for the Ensuing Year, who exposes an astrologer), Swift created the hero Gulliver, who in the first instance stands for the bluff, decent, average Englishman and in the second, humanity in general. Gulliver is a full and powerful vision of a human being in a world in which violent passions, intellectual pride, and external chaos can degrade him or her---to animalism, in Swift's most horrifying images---but in which humans do have scope to act, guided by the Classical-Christian tradition. Gulliver's Travels has been an immensely successful children's book (although Swift did not care much for children), so widely popular through the world for its imagination, wit, fun, freshness, vigor, and narrative skill that its hero is in many languages a common proper noun. Perhaps as a consequence, its meaning has been the subject of continuing dispute, and its author has been called everything from sentimental to mad. Swift died in Dublin and was buried next to his beloved "Stella.

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