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A VOYAGE INTO THE BLACK & BIZARRE IMAGINATION OF DR. JONATHAN SWIFT INCLUDING GULLIVER'S TRAVELS & OTHER OBSCENE CREATIONS
RUNTIME: 90 MINS
CAT: AWA242
UPC: 881482324293
RRP: $14.95
Having read Gulliver’s Travels, the Victorian novelist, William Thackeray called Swift “a monster, gibbering shrieks and gnashing imprecations against mankind… tearing down all shreds of modesty, past all sense of manliness and shame; filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging and obscene.”
Closer to our own time, George Orwell felt the Dean had “a world view which only just passes the test of sanity.” Just what had this eminent churchman and politician been doing to arouse such fury? And isn’t Gulliver’s Travels a nursery classic after all? Well, yes, but...