Satire still hits targets
Plus ça change ...
And yes, I'm looking at you Mrs May and Mr Trump
Plus ça change ...
And yes, I'm looking at you Mrs May and Mr Trump
Common misconception is this is a children's book. It's not. It's an incredibly detailed and well-thought out satire pointing at the British during the reconstruction Era. It's one of my favorites.
Our book club is reading a satirical novel in the coming year, I'm looking for suggestions.
But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Detail from a map in my lovely little 1938 Ronald Press edition of Gulliver's Travels. #mapsinbooks