The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver&s Travels by Jonathan Swift& Fifteen hundred of the Emperor&s largest horses each about four inches & an half high were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis which as I said was half a Mile distant&A savage & hilarious satire Gulliver&s Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked & adrift subject to bizarre & unnerving encounters with among others quarrelling Lilliputians philosophizing horses & the brutish Yahoo tribe that change his view of humanity
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