Jonathan Swift
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
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". In his travels Gulliver visits the Land of Lilliput, where he towers over the local inhabitants, the land of Brobdingnag where he is much smaller than the citizens, the floating island of Laputa, infested with fanatical scientists who in their obsession with reason
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Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 100
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c1958
Language
English
Description
Includes "Gulliver's Travels, " "A Tale of a Tub, " "The Battle of the Books, " "Modest Propsal, " and selections from Swift's letters, essays, and poems.
Author
Publisher
Baronet Bks
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.
Author
Series
Great books of the western world volume 36
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
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.
Tristram Shandy is an ironic masterpiece, a work of extraordinary originality, wit and learning. It is a work of considerable philosophical complexity but at the same time it is just a piece of flim-flam: it has been called the longest shaggy dog story in English Literature....
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After orphaned twelve-year-old Michael Pine, who seems headed for trouble, meets old Lem Gulliver, he finds new purpose as protector of the Lilliputians who live in Lem's back garden, even if that means saving them from one another.
Series
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
"Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's timeless tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who washes ashore on a strange and distant land to find himself a giant among the tiny citizens of Lilliput. Share Gulliver's wonder at the world of the Lilliputians, his entanglements at their royal court, the dangers he faces and the grand adventure he experiences in his struggle to return home to his beloved England"--Container.
10) Lilliput
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Three-inch-tall Lily has been trapped in a bird cage for half of her life while her giant captor, Gulliver, writes a book about his travels but she finally escapes and, aided by a clockmaker's apprentice and his friends, makes plans to leave London and return home to Lilliput. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels.