Gulliver's travels

Gulliver's travels

by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's travels

Gulliver's travels

by Jonathan Swift

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Overview

Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.
Book I: When the ship Gulliver is traveling on is destroyed in a storm, Gulliver ends up on the island of Lilliput, where he awakes to find that he has been captured by Lilliputians, very small people - approximately six inches in height. Gulliver is treated with compassion and concern. In turn, he helps them solve some of their problems, especially their conflict with their enemy, Blefuscu, an island across the bay from them. Gulliver falls from favor, however, because he refuses to support the Emperor's desire to enslave the Blefuscudians and because he "makes water" to put out a palace fire. Gulliver flees to Blefuscu, where he converts a large war ship to his own use and sets sail from Blefuscu eventually to be rescued at sea by an English merchant ship and returned to his home in England.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781500880637
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 08/20/2014
Pages: 294
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile: 1150L (what's this?)

About the Author

Jonathan Swift


Detail of a portrait of Jonathan Swift directed by Charles Jervas (1718).

Other key data names MB Draper, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff
Activities priest, writer, pamphleteer
Born November 30, 1667
Dublin (Ireland)
Death October 19, 1745 (77 years)
Dublin (Ireland)
Writing language English

major works

Letters from the clothier, (1724)
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Modest Proposal (1729)
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Jonathan Swift, born November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, and died October 19, 1745 in the same city is a writer, satirist, essayist, pamphleteer Anglo-Irish politics. [1] He is also a poet and cleric, and as he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

He is famous for writing Gulliver's Travels. Swift is probably the greatest satirist in prose in the English language. He published his works by using pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff and MB Draper, or even anonymously. Finally, it is known to be a master of two styles of satire, satire and horacienne juvénalienne satire. He is a member of the Scriblerus Club.
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