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Houyhnhnms are a
fictional race of
intelligent horses described in the last part of
Jonathan Swift's
satirical 1726
novel Gulliver's Travels. The name...
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Houyhnhnms and
Yahoos as a master/slave dynamic.
Gulliver becomes a
member of a horse's
household and
comes to both
admire and
emulate the
Houyhnhnms...
- In the book,
Gulliver is so
impressed with the
Utopian country of the
Houyhnhnms that when he
returns to
England he
eventually chooses to live out his...
- Gulliver. He
finds the calm and
rational society of
intelligent horses, the
Houyhnhnms,
greatly preferable. The
Yahoos are
primitive creatures obsessed with...
- (or, less frequently, year 593 Ab urbe condita) and the
Third Year of
Houyhnhnm. The
denomination 161 BC for this year it has been used
since the early...
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eventually returns to England; like
Gulliver on his
return from the
Houyhnhnms, he
finds himself unable to
shake off the
perceptions of his
fellow humans...
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seventeen years of composition. In
March 2010, a new
edition was
published by
Houyhnhnm Press in
conjunction with Penguin.
Editors Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon...
- the
countries Lemuel Gulliver visits,
Brobdingnag and
Country of the
Houyhnhnms approach a utopia; the
others have
significant dystopian aspects. In ecotopian...
- moons,
which his La****n
astronomers had discovered.
Island gigantism Houyhnhnm Lilliput and
Blefuscu Struldbrug Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)
Grildrig has...
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Language suggested that hoon (meaning "a fool") was a
contraction of
Houyhnhnm, a
fictional race of
intelligent horses which appears in Gulliver's Travels...
