Gulliver's Travels (Version 3): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Gulliver's Travels (Version 3), credited to Jonathan Swift, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Gulliver's Travels (Version 3) by Jonathan Swift. Read in English by Peter Dann. First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents, as a mock travel tale, a series of thought experiments mixed with strong elements of social satire. A good part of the fun is seeing Swift work through the practical implications of each of his "what ifs?" — what if I was suddenly enormously magnified or diminished in size? for example - and delighting in the relish with which Swift indulges his great interest in matters scatalogical. As the tale progresses, Swift's skewering of English society becomes more and more pointed, reaching its ultimate ad absurdum as the author compares his contemporaries unfavourably with ... horses. (Summary by Peter Dann)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Gulliver's Travels (Version 3)
• Author credits: Jonathan Swift
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 9:57:21

Catalogue topics

• satire
• gulliver
• voyages
• fantasy fiction
• travelers -- fiction
• lemuel (fictitious character) -- fiction
• imaginary -- early works to 1800

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 01 - The publisher to the reader — 3:05
2. 02 - A letter from Captain Gulliver to his cousin Sympson — 8:45
3. 03 - Part 1 (A voyage to Lilliput), chapter 1 — 21:37
4. 04 - Part 1, chapter 2 — 21:13
5. 05 - Part 1, chapter 3 — 16:26
6. 06 - Part 1, chapter 4 — 10:36
7. 07 - Part 1, chapter 5 — 13:41
8. 08 - Part 1, chapter 6 — 21:37
9. 09 - Part 1, chapter 7 — 17:06
10. 10 - Part 1, chapter 8 — 13:05
11. 11 - Part 2 (A voyage to Brobdingnag), chapter 1 — 26:12
12. 12 - Part 2, chapter 2 — 12:01
13. 13 - Part 2, chapter 3 — 21:39
14. 14 - Part 2, chapter 4 — 10:12
15. 15 - Part 2, chapter 5 — 19:41
16. 16 - Part 2, chapter 6 — 17:51
17. 17 - Part 2, chapter 7 — 13:58
18. 18 - Part 2, chapter 8 — 24:07
19. 19 - Part 3 (A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan), chapter 1 — 11:45
20. 20 - Part 3, chapter 2 — 17:26
21. 21 - Part 3, chapter 3 — 15:09
22. 22 - Part 3, chapter 4 — 12:27
23. 23 - Part 3, chapter 5 — 15:06
24. 24 - Part 3, chapter 6 — 12:16

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