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Gulliver's Return

- A Sequel to Voyage to Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári

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  • Engelsk
  • 494 sider

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This satirical science-fiction story is a sequel to S ndor Szathm ri's novel, Voyage to Kazohinia, which is itself a follow-on from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. After returning to Great Britain following his visit to Kazohinia in 1935, Lemuel Gulliver returns in 1940 on a secret military mission to get help in winning the war against the Huns from the scientifically and technologically advanced Hins. However, unknown to him at the time, Gulliver has also travelled 70-odd years into the future and arrived in Grand Boetonia (GB): what readers will recognize as a satirized depiction of modern Britain where a new language, purged of everything objectionable to anyone is enforced. Falling foul of this, Gulliver is compulsorily hospitalized, but finds that being psychotic oneself is the key qualification to becoming a successful psychiatrist in GB where things happen which could never happen anywhere else and seem to be the exact opposite of everything he knew at home...

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal494
  • Udgivelsesdato04-10-2018
  • ISBN139781723923135
  • Forlag Independently Published
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt621 g
  • Dybde2,7 cm
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    10 cm
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    13,9 cm
    21,5 cm

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