An Englishman is shipwrecked in a land where the people are only six inches tall.
An abridged version of the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
Master Bates: it is sometimes suggested that the possible pun on the surgeon's name, elaborately built up with earlier references to 'Mr James Bates', 'Mr Bates', 'my good Master Mr Bates', and 'Mr Bates, ...
... Gulliver sets out on his voyage again on 5 August , 1706 . After ten days ' journey , Gulliver's ship is chased by pirates . Gulliver and his friends are tied by strong ropes . One of the pirates is a Dutchman . He orders them to be tied ...
Jonathan Swift's classic satire is annotated and profusely illustrated in an edition that includes discussions of Swift's life and politics and the medicine, geography, and astronomy of his times
... they will dig with their Claws for whole Days to get them out, then carry them away, and hide them by Heaps in their Kennels; but still looking round with great Caution, for fear their Comrades should find out their Treasure.
ings by different publishers keeps much of Swift's language , including : Mr. Gulliver could not help wondering at the ... Chapman's is properly an edition , preserving Swift's prose but deleting or sanitizing all touchstone incidents .
When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the assistance of him and my Uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds ...
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Gulliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships".
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