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The Great Political Fictions: Gulliver’s Travels

Past Present Future

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Exploring the dual nature of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels as both a children's adventure story and a satire of 18th-century court politics in England and European high politics, with mentions of its publication in 1726 and similarities to George Orwell's Animal Farm.

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