Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Papilio Classics)

Good product printing is good easy to read

For the first time in my life I enjoyed to read such a splendidly edited, exhaustively comment and non-bowdlerized version of one of my the most adored book.

Do not buy the Kindle version if you are looking for the Cambridge edition. I thought it was suspiciously cheap, but it showed as a Kindle version of the Cambridge edition and after clicking on it and scrolling down, the reviews where also for the Cambridge edition.However, the Kindle version is only the plain "regular" Gulliver's travels, not the Cambridge version.

This nearly 300 year old classic deserves its reputation, but it is a novel of two halves. The first two books of the four, in which Gulliver visits respectively Lilliput (very small people) and Brobdingnag (giants) are very good, funny, adventurous, imaginative and bawdy and would be worth 5/5 by themselves. However, I found the latter two books when he visits the flying island of Laputa and other lands; then in the final book, the land of the Houyhnhnms (intelligent horses subjugating primates who resemble degraded humans) duller and a lot harder to get through. They contain a lot of quite clever satire on the human condition and on civic life in Europe, but are rather overegged and over long, with little plot so rather a slog. 2/5 for the latter half, so overall 3.5/5 (rounded up to 4/5 on Amazon - when will they allow us halves?).

I thought it was really cool how he went from normal people to small people and then to normal and then big people and finally back to normal size people. Awesome book.