Gulliver's travels.

Rainbow Classics

Hardcover, 254 pages

English language

Published Feb. 24, 1948 by World Pub. Co..

OCLC Number:
4511544

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The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, Brobdingnag, a land of giants, and Glubbdubdrib, an island of sorcerers.--WorldCat.

Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satiric masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. First, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches tall. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet tall. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky, and a land where horses are endowed with reason and beasts are shaped like men. Read by children as an adventure story and by adults as a devastating satire of society, Gulliver's Travels remains a fascinating blend of travelogue, realism, symbolism, and fantastic voyage--all with a serious philosophical content.--goodreads

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Subjects

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