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The New Gulliver, and Other Stories

by Barry Pain

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A shipwreck brings Lemuel Gulliver, junior, to Thule, where an elderly inhabitant explains a civilisation organised around avoiding risk. Homes lie underground, travel depends on the rearrangement of atoms, and a hungry visitor discovers a dining room stocked with numbered bottles. Barry Pain gives these extraordinary arrangements the tone of a practical conversation, allowing the host's confidence in progress to become part of the joke.

The New Gulliver, and Other Stories places this imagined society beside shorter pieces, including a comic account of gardening in London. There, a fountain requires an old baby's bath hidden in a tree, while its proud designer gradually admits how much he owes to a capable workman. The collection moves between speculative invention and ordinary vanity. Its appeal lies in the gap between what narrators claim and the awkward details they reveal, making it a useful choice for readers of dry humour and unusual fiction.

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Barry Pain

Barry Pain (1864–1928) was an English journalist, humorist, and short-story writer, born Barry Eric Odell Pain in Cambridge. He made his name in the 1890s with comic sketches and parodies for magazines such as Punch and the Cornhill, and later edited the weekly magazine To-Day, succeeding Jerome K. Jerome.

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Pages
122
Language
English
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