The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
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"The Voyage of Captain Popanilla" by Benjamin Disraeli is a satirical novel published in 1828. When Popanilla discovers books washed ashore on his idyllic island, he becomes obsessed with "progress" and development. Banished for his revolutionary ideas, he voyages to the supposedly civilized nation of Vraibleusia, where he encounters economic absurdities, bizarre customs, and a patched-up talking statue that controls the stock market. This allegorical fantasy, influenced by Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," lampoons
contemporary British society, including colonial ambitions and economic policies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Voyage of Captain Popanilla |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popanilla |
| Credits | Produced by K. Kay Shearin, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 52.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Utopias -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 7816 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-07816-8 |
| Release Date | Apr 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 556 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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