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Gulliver's Travels Audiobook by Jonathan Swift
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Gulliver's Travels Author: Jonathan Swift Narrator: Walter Covell Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 01-04-08 Publisher: Jimcin Recordings Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Classics, British Literature Publisher's Summary: Irish writer Jonathan Swift was trained for the Church, but for many years did not achieve a suitable post. He supported himself as a private secretary. The break came with the publication of Tale of a Tub, published in 1704, when he was 37. He continued to make a living from minor Church positions but increasingly gained recognition for his writing. Swift went to England as a political journalist for the Tories, but when George I died in 1714, he returned to Ireland, much scorned. He retreated into Church work, gradually recovered his spirits, and in 1725 published Gulliver's Travels, a book universally acknowledged as one of the most fantasti