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ThePenguinEnglishLibraryEditionofGulliver'sTravelsbyJonathanSwift.'FifteenhundredoftheEmperor'slargesthorses,eachaboutfourinchesandanhalfhigh,wereemployedtodrawmetowardstheMetropolis,which,asIsaid,washalfaMiledistant'Asavageandhilarioussatire,Gulliver'sTravelsseesLemuelGullivershipwreckedandadrift,subjecttobizarreandunnervingencounterswith,amongothers,quarrellingLilliputians,philosophizinghorsesandthebrutishYahootribe,thatchangehisviewofhumanity-andhimself-forever.Swift'sclassicof1726portraysmankindinadistortedhallofmirrorsasadiminished,magnifiedandfinallybestialspecies,presentinguswithacomicalyetuncompromisingreflectionofourselves.ThePenguinEnglishLibrary-100editionsofthebestfictioninEnglish,fromtheeighteenthcenturyandtheveryfirstnovelstothebeginningoftheFirstWorldWar.