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Hace 4 días · Gulliver’s Travels is a first-person narrative that is told from the point of view of Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon and sea captain who visits remote regions of the world, and it describes four adventures.
Read the first chapter of Jonathan Swift's satirical novel about a shipwrecked surgeon who lands on the island of Lilliput. Learn about his adventures, observations and encounters with the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput.
Gulliver in Lilliput, a 1982 television serial produced by the BBC and aired in 4 parts; concertrating on the "Lilliput" section, the serial featured Andrew Burt as Gulliver. Saban's Gulliver's Travels , a 1992 French animated TV series
Chapter 1. Each chapter is advertised. In this chapter, "The Author gives some Account of himself and Family, his first Inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his Life, gets safe on shoar in the Country of Lilliput, is made a Prisoner, and carryed up the Country."
Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel 800 yards (730 m) wide.
Gulliver goes on to describe the “intrigue” that precipitates his departure from Lilliput. While he prepares to make his trip to Blefuscu, a court official tells Gulliver that he has been charged with treason by enemies in the government.
The Lilliputians are men six inches in height but possessing all the pretension and self-importance of full-sized men. They are mean and nasty, vicious, morally corrupt, hypocritical and deceitful, jealous and envious, filled with greed and ingratitude — they are, in fact, completely human. Swift uses the Lilliputians to satirize specific ...
