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207
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English
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Ebooks
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2026
Description
Four voyages. Four impossible lands. One devastating truth about ourselves.
Shipwrecked sailor Lemuel Gulliver discovers worlds that defy imagination: the tiny Lilliputians, whose absurd wars over how to crack an egg mock our own political tribes; the giant philosophers of Brobdingnag, who find European "civilization" utterly repulsive; the detached scientists of Laputa, conducting useless research while their people starve; and finally the Houyhnhnms—horses ruled by pure reason—alongside the Yahoos: filthy, violent creatures who are, unmistakably, us.
Published in 1726, Swift's masterpiece was designed "to vex the world rather than divert it." Three centuries later, its question remains: in an age of algorithms, billionaires, and performative outrage, have we become the Yahoos?
The greatest satire ever written—and a mirror we still cannot break.
Shipwrecked sailor Lemuel Gulliver discovers worlds that defy imagination: the tiny Lilliputians, whose absurd wars over how to crack an egg mock our own political tribes; the giant philosophers of Brobdingnag, who find European "civilization" utterly repulsive; the detached scientists of Laputa, conducting useless research while their people starve; and finally the Houyhnhnms—horses ruled by pure reason—alongside the Yahoos: filthy, violent creatures who are, unmistakably, us.
Published in 1726, Swift's masterpiece was designed "to vex the world rather than divert it." Three centuries later, its question remains: in an age of algorithms, billionaires, and performative outrage, have we become the Yahoos?
The greatest satire ever written—and a mirror we still cannot break.
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Date de parution
17 février 2026
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EAN13
9791256796731
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Langue
English
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Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo