Gulliver's Travels: SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic (Unabridged) Paperback – December 4, 2022

This review is for the hardcover version.The book ( and actually the entire set of seawolf publishing hardcovers ) are of high quality printing.The binding could be better made but overall it looks very original.Recommend this book to anyone who actually wants to read the story.

The first copy I received was defective, the print was faded and it was unreadable but they replaced it immediately and the next copy was perfect so I appreciated that very much.

This is a really nice version, with appropriate artwork, and good text size. Quality paperback.

It’s definitely the original, unedited, unabridged edition, 100% faithful to the original.

Product arrived quickly and in perfect condition.

Be careful when looking for a copy of Gulliver's Travels. From the very first edition in 1726 publishers have been so scandalized by Swift's book that it has been edited and censored. But not this edition. It has been fully restored according to Swift's intentions with all the naughty parts. If you want a truly unabridged version and you think you can handle graphic descriptions of giant body parts and bodily functions the way Swift meant you to, get this edition. What's more, the font has an authentic old-time look to it and the 100 vintage illustrations are wonderful. I can't imagine finding a better or more beautiful edition, especially for the price. And I know from experience that customer service at Sea Wolf is second to none.

Look, the reality is that it takes a lot for me to laugh out loud or even so much as giggle and this book does just that. Once the reader takes on the fact that Swift's sardonic, sarcastic, and satirical self will be especially heavy handed here you can start enjoying the book for what it is.Swift's critique of the societal and cultural dilemmas of humans, specifically those in the late 1600s and early 1700s, makes for some aggressive reading. Lemuel Gulliver is our protagonist and the man we follow on his four extensive travels from London. First, it's to an island nation of miniature humans who find his size particularly dangerous. Next, to an island of giants where Gulliver starts to understand why the miniature humans of the last island found him so grotesque. After, he discovers a floating island peopled with humans that have their heads, quite literally and figuratively, in the clouds. Lastly, he travels to an island where horses who are very wise rule and a type of human called Yahoos are barbarous and terrible.Each snapshot of his travels offers Swift the opportunity to defecate down the throats of whomever he wishes to ridicule in everyday life of London. In this way, it's rather hilarious and he keeps it entertaining. But if you're not ready for that kind of reading, or think that there is some class in the classics, you'll be sorely disappointed.

I'm not sure who, in their right mind, decided that Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," was suitable reading material for older children and young adults 10 to 14 years of age, but they must have spent their childhood on a remote island in the 17th century.I chose this books as potential summer reading for my 10-year-old who loves reading and does so faster than me! She also reads aloud remarkably well.Defoe was dead on arrival.Hence, I turned it into a bedtime book I read to her as she thought it boring and helped her doze off more quickly.I have to agree with my daughter. I found it not only boring, but difficult to read as the prose is so stilted, and repetitively redundant, that it often took one or two paragraphs to say would could have been grasped in a single sentence. (I realize that a story such as this would have been monumentally extraordinary in the 1600s, but things change.)To solve the problem, I began reading only the first line of every paragraph (with occasional exceptions) and that seemed to do the trick. We lost none of the story line and kept more than enough color as even one Defoe sentence can be a paragraph long.I new, 21st-century, edited version of "Robinson Crusoe" would be an excellent offering for young adults. Not dumbed down, but simply cleaned up by today's standard. No one likes chewing on concrete unless it's for college credit and you need the class to graduate.