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Gulliver's Travels

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This simplified text follows the extraordinary adventures of ship surgeon Lemuel Gulliver after he is shipwrecked. The primary focus is his journey to Lilliput, an island inhabited entirely by tiny people who are only six inches tall. Gulliver is initially captured and tied down, becoming a giant prisoner in their miniature society. The plot humorously highlights the absurdity and pettiness of human behavior through the actions of the Lilliputians, who engage in civil war over trivial matters, such as the correct way to crack an egg (Big-Endians vs. Little-Endians). Gulliver eventually uses his immense size to aid the Lilliputians in battle before escaping, learning valuable lessons about the arrogance of power and the relative scale of human problems.

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Series Title

Simplified Classic Retelling / Adventure Fiction

Call Number

823 SWI g

Publisher

Surrey : Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2002

Collation

13 hlm: ilus.; 13 x 19 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-746-05309-6

Classification

823

Content Type

text

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Carrier Type

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Edition

1

Subject(s)

Simplified Classic Reader
Lilliputians / Miniature People
Satire of Human Folly
Adventure and Voyages

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