Gulliver's Travels
By Jonathan Swift (1726)
Lemuel Gulliver's wondrous journeys: waking bound by six-inch men in Lilliput and towering among the giants of Brobdingnag.
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Chapter 1: Waking on the Shore of Lilliput
Bound by thousands of tiny threads; forty small archers aiming needles at his chin.
Waking on the Shore of Lilliput
Bound by thousands of tiny threads; forty small archers aiming needles at his chin.
[Complete Public Domain Work — Pre-1928 Edition.]
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Chapter 1: Waking on the Shore of Lilliput
Bound by thousands of tiny threads; forty small archers aiming needles at his chin.
Chapter 2: The Emperor and Court of Lilliput
Dancing on tightropes for royal ribbons; the great feeding operation of fifty carts of bread.
Chapter 3: The War of the Big-Endians and Little-Endians
The trivial religious controversy over which end of a boiled egg to crack.
Chapter 4: Capturing the Fleet of Blefuscu
Wading into the channel with cables and iron hooks to draw the enemy armada home.
Chapter 5: Brobdingnag: The Land of the Giants
Abandoned in a field of barley forty feet high; held gently by a farmer like a tiny insect.
Chapter 6: Glumdalclitch: The Gentle Little Nurse
The nine-year-old girl who sews him clothes, makes his dollhouse bed, and carries him in a box.
Chapter 7: Conversations with the King of Brobdingnag
Describing European politics and gunpowder to the giant king, who recoils in horror.
Chapter 8: The Eagle and the Box: The Escape
A sea eagle snatches his travel box by the iron ring, dropping it into the ocean where an English ship finds it.
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