Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World

Ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver keeps surviving shipwrecks and keeps landing somewhere impossible. Among the six-inch Lilliputians, he is a mountain entangled in the pettiest politics imaginable, wars fought over which end of an egg to crack. In Brobdingnag the scale flips: he is the toy of giants, and his proud account of European civilization leaves the giant king concluding that humans are 'the most pernicious race of little odious vermin' ever to crawl the earth. Later voyages bring flying islands of useless philosophers and, finally, a land where rational horses rule over filthy, greedy creatures called Yahoos, who look exactly like us.

Swift's masterpiece works on every level at once: as a fantastic adventure story children have loved for three centuries, and as the most savage satire ever aimed at human vanity. Gulliver's matter-of-fact narration (reporting the impossible in the deadpan tone of a ship's log) makes it a natural audiobook: the more calmly he reports, the funnier and darker it gets.

At roughly 52,300 words, Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World runs about 6 hours at 1x narration speed. That figure is an estimate based on a typical narration pace. The exact length depends on the voice and the playback speed you choose.

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World is in the public domain, so the complete text is free on Project Gutenberg and LoudReader has the entire Project Gutenberg catalog built in. To listen:

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