Book Review(4)

Book Name- Gullivers Travels

Author- Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift's highly influential work is a satire on the prevailing customs, philosophy, and pretenses of European society in the 1700's. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all its original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication.
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Book Review(3)
Book Name- The Invisible Man
Author- H.G.Wells

"To be invisible has been man's ultimate fantasy. But the troubles and difficulties one encounters on being invisible are never given a thought."

            - Alston 

The story opens on a snowy winter evening in rural Iping Village, England at the turn of the century. A stranger checks into a country inn with his face bandaged up as though from a horrible accident. He demands privacy and for his cases to be brought up from the station in the morning. The local people just can't seem to keep from trying to glimpse at what lies beneath the man's wrappings. Unusual occurrences begin and the stranger is suspected of being a thief. The stranger enlists the help of an unwilling beggar, Marvel who is so unnerved that he runs for his life taking off with the stranger's possessions. The stranger is forced to flee after it is determined that he is in fact an invisible man. The stranger comes upon the residence of Dr. Kemp who finally is told the identity of the stranger. The man is Jack Griffin, a brilliant chemistry student who is described as almost an albino(An individual with complete absence of melanin is called an albino). In great detail he tells Kemp of how the whole thing happened as a part of his studies on an unfortunate cat, his act of arson to his living quarters, his flight from the law, and how he now wants to use his invisibility to conquer the world. Griffin neglects to mention that the experiment has made him insane for want of power. Kemp is unsympathetic but plays along with Griffin while sending a note to the local constable. The law is after him yet again but he manages to slip away. He is enraged at Dr. Kemps deceitful act and vows revenge. He assaults Kemp's home, breaking all the windows and chopping through a door with an axe bringing the action and the story to its climax.

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Book Review(2)
Book Name- The Secret Garden
Author-Francis Hodgson Burnett

Mary Lennox is the daughter of a rich British colonist of India. She is a spoilt girl who doesn't know what caring means. When her parents die of cholera, ten-year-old Mary is sent to live in her  uncle's  mansion ,   Misselthwaite Manor. Her uncle, Archibald Craven, lost his wife and can't stop mourning her. He left control of his house to his brother. To Mary's surprise, she isn't waited on hand and foot, but sent outside to go play in the gardens. There, she finds a boy named Dickon who's followed around by kind animals, a friendly robin and a garden hidden behind a wall. As she starts to care about people other than herself, the garden, once Archibald Craven's wife's, starts to come alive around her for the first time since Mr Craven's wife died. She finds a boy named Colin, who turns out to be her cousin, spoilt, like Mary was in India, sick with delusions that he's to ill to live. Mary and Dickon decide to take him into the "Secret Garden" to make him glad to be alive.I recommend this book to everyone.

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Book Review
Book Name - George's Marvellous Medicine
Author  -        Roald Dahl
                        
George is alone in the house with his Grandma – the most horrible Grandma that ever was. She is grouchy and grizzled and grumpy. Luckily, George knows how to cure her of her bad attitude. He decides to brew up an extra-special remedy – a Grandma Medicine. He mixes together all sorts of things and creates the most marvelous medicine for his grouchy grandma. The problem is, George doesn't know exactly what his medicine will do. From growing into a gigantic ball of air, to growing so tall that she bursts through the ceiling, George's medicine has a number of amazing and hilarious results. In the meantime, George struggles to get the magical effect of his medicine under control.I would recommend this book to everyone.
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