Gullivers Travels (Illustrated)
A new edition was released in that included allegory not found in the versions; this edition is generally, though not universally, regarded as the more authentic version.
Film adaptations have tended to focus on the first two stories and include an animated film produced by the Fleischer brothers , a partially animated musical version starring Richard Harris as Gulliver, and a two-part television movie starring Ted Danson.
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Gulliver's Travels
Patricia Bauer Vybarr Cregan-Reid. Nov 15, See Article History. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Swift grouped himself with Pope and Gay in hostility to the Walpole regime and the Hanoverian court, and that preoccupation leaves its mark on this work.
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In the 20th century, when the possibility of a planned society became too imminent, a number of bitterly anti-utopian, or dystopian, novels appeared. Verbal humour In satire: Literature utopias In utopia: Swift Juvenalian satire tradition In Juvenalian satire.
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