Gulliver's TravelsCollector's Library, 2004 - 381 sivua Jonathan Swift's masterpiece is the finest satire in the English language. Shipwrecked traveler Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed ashore in Lilliput, a kingdom populated by tiny people. Fascinated by their exotic visitor, the Lilliputians enlist Gulliver's services in their bitter civil war. But Gulliver becomes the object of a court intrigue and has to make a hasty escape. On his next voyage, his ship is blown off course to Brobdingnag, whose giant inhabitants strike him as horrific and occasionally revolting. A third journey takes him to Laputa, a floating island occupied by pedantic scientists and philosophers. Finally, he encounters a society of rational horses, the Houyhnhnms, and witnesses the appalling behaviour of their servants the Yahoos, a group who are in many ways disturbingly similar to Man at his most bestial. Swift's brilliantly original story is a timeless portrait of the human condition in all its misery and majesty. |
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CHAPTER I | 15 |
CHAPTER 2 | 28 |
CHAPTER 3 | 40 |
CHAPTER 4 | 50 |
inhabitants | 97 |
native country | 152 |
country very imperfect and confined Their laws | 160 |
Blefuscu and after some difficulties returns safe to | 168 |
navigation | 269 |
CHAPTER 2 | 278 |
his own country His quarrels with the Queens dwarf | 285 |
CHAPTER 4 | 292 |
The Author by an extraordinary stratagem prevents | 299 |
A continuation of the state of England so well governed | 307 |
CHAPTER 7 | 316 |
CHAPTER 8 | 325 |
reception there | 192 |
The Author permitted to see the Grand Academy | 217 |
CHAPTER 6 | 226 |
His high treason makes his escape to Blefuscu | 233 |
CHAPTER 9 | 245 |
CHAPTER II | 261 |
CHAPTER 9 | 333 |
CHAPTER | 340 |
to England | 346 |
CHAPTER II | 349 |
and concludes | 359 |
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