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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

a voyage to Lilliput: high Gulliver in the land of the low Lilliputians -在小人国的旅行


Gulliver's Travels 
(1726, amended 1735),  is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
In particular, on his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and awakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of people one-twelfth the size of normal human beings, less than 6 inches (15cm) high, who are inhabitants of the neighbouring and rival countries of Lilliput and Blefuscu.

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