6/12/23

Erga Netz - What really happened to Gulliver in his famous travels? And what did his wife do in the meantime? In this satirical novel, laced with a bit of eroticism, Mary Burton-Gulliver recounts her life as a "widow-of-the-sea" and the events that her husband didn’t dare to publish

 


Erga Netz, Oh, Gulliver!: Mary Burton-Gulliver's

Diary and Her Memoir of Gulliver's Travels,

Tough Poets Pres, 2023


What really happened to Gulliver in his famous travels? And what did his wife do in the meantime?

In this satirical novel, laced with a bit of eroticism, Mary Burton-Gulliver recounts her life as a "widow-of-the-sea" and the events that her husband didn’t dare to publish in his 1726 Gulliver's Travels.


"As a fan of the Gulliverian world, I must admit that you succeed in capturing its magic and charm even more successfully than T.H. White in his love letter to the Gulliverian world, Mistress Masham's Repose."— An early reader's comment

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