THE STORY OF GULLIVER HC – JONATHAN COE-SARA ODDI-SARA ODDI

p strong The disconcerting encounters of Lemuel Gulliver strong /p p For the first time in his life, Gulliver felt ashamed of himself and his fellow-humans. /p p Gulliver is a travel-hungry and adventurous ship s doctor, who has the odd misfortune of being ship-wrecked four times in as many voyages. Through Jonathan Coe s expert retelling of Swift s famous satire about our human hubris and desires, today s young readers are swept along as Gulliver finds himself a giant among tiny humans in Lilliput; a tiny human among giants in Brobdignag; on the flying island of Laputa, with its most impractical intellectuals; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of human Yahoos . /p p Jonathan Coe was born a long time ago in England, where he still lives. He has written twelve books, among them em The House of Sleep /em and em The Rain Before it Falls /em , but knows that he will never write as beautiful a book as em Gulliver s Travels /em . /p