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Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift
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Lemuel Gulliver travels to strange lands — the tiny Lilliputians, the giant Brobdingnagians, the floating island of Laputa, and the rational Houyhnhnms — in Swift's devastating satire on human nature, politics, and society. One of the most imaginative and wickedly funny books ever written.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Genre: Satire / Comedy
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Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the north-east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned. I pulled off my shoes and stockings, and, wading two or three hundred yards, I found the object to approach nearer by force of the tide; and then plainly saw it to be a real boat, which I supposed might by some tempest have been driven from a ship. Whereupon, I returned immediately towards the city, and desired his imperial majesty to lend me twenty of the tallest vessels he had left, after the loss of his fleet, and three thousand seamen, under the command of his vice-admiral. This fleet sailed round, while I went back the shortest way to the coast, where I first discovered the boat. I found the tide had driven it still nearer. The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. When the ships came up, I stripped myself, and waded till I came within a hundred yards of the boat, after which I was forced to swim till I got up to it.
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