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Giant-sized adventure in fantasy land; Children's classic.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20040213
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Byline: TOM ROSENTHAL

GULLIVER'S Travels is, of course, a novel about politics, and so is Animal Farm. And just as Orwell made his political satire on Communism into an enthralling story with a meticulously crafted plot and deep and subtle characterisation, so Jonathan Swift turns the absurdities of party politics in the reign of Queen Anne into a saga of bizarre invention and a narrative style that any contemporary novelist worth his salt can only envy.

Which is why it has appealed to generations of children as well as adults ever since it was first published in 1726.

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