Gulliver's travels

a voyage to Lilliput, a voyage to Brobdingnag

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Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels (1918, J.B. Lippincott)

221 pages

English language

Published Feb. 24, 1918 by J.B. Lippincott.

OCLC Number:
3798894

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For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. The people of these countries, with all their curiously human failings, come to life in vivid illustrations. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too.--GOODREADS

Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of traveling the world. But when a violent storm claims his ship and casts him adrift among uncharted lands, he is taken to places that he could not even dream of. Traveling to the nation of Lilliput, where the inhabitants measure just centimeters tall, and to Brobdingnag, where they tower into the sky like giants, Gulliver voyages to an island floating above the clouds, visits a race of immortals, and finds himself stranded in a land ruled by horses.

Face to face with warring armies and power-hungry kings, each new journey …

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Subjects

  • Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800
  • Travelers -- Fiction