Barry Pain 3 hr 30 min read

Shipwrecked and living on the raw flesh of the sharks that attacked him, Lemuel Gulliver, junior, washes up to record the strange travels that carry on his famous father's name.

Barry Pain's 1913 collection leads with a satirical Gulliver pastiche and gathers other imaginative stories. Witty, inventive, of its era. Read it for a clever Edwardian follow-up to Swift, the younger Gulliver's fantastical voyages, alongside a fine assortment of the fantastic and strange from a gifted humorist.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 30 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).