70–75: Gulliver’s Travels; Random Acts of Heroic Love; How Sleep the Brave; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Jungle Book; and The Odyssey

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift turns the full force of his satirical powers on European society, and it’s amazing. From the petty Lilliputians to the arrogant Brobdingnagians, from the earnestly Projecting Balnibarians to the spirit-conjuring magicians of Glubbdubdrib, and finally to the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos. Everybody knows about Brobdingnag and Lilliput – the adjectival forms … More 70–75: Gulliver’s Travels; Random Acts of Heroic Love; How Sleep the Brave; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Jungle Book; and The Odyssey