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“I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”
Gulliver’s Travels was published in 1726 by Irish author Jonathan Swift. It is the story of the travels of ships surgeon Lemuel Gulliver to various fantastical lands.
Gulliver first travels to Lilliput, a land of tiny people caught up with political rivalries between the High Heels and the Low Heels and religious disputes b ...more
Gulliver’s Travels was published in 1726 by Irish author Jonathan Swift. It is the story of the travels of ships surgeon Lemuel Gulliver to various fantastical lands.
Gulliver first travels to Lilliput, a land of tiny people caught up with political rivalries between the High Heels and the Low Heels and religious disputes b ...more
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
READ 2019
This was a bit of a pain to read, but I'm glad I managed to get through it! I read this for school, and we filmed a video based on it. Gulliver was a travel YouTuber... It was fun. We picked this book because it seemed like one of the easiest to make into a short movie, when I would have probably preferred to read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
As I'm not used to reading literature from the 1700's, it was a little more cha ...more
READ 2019
This was a bit of a pain to read, but I'm glad I managed to get through it! I read this for school, and we filmed a video based on it. Gulliver was a travel YouTuber... It was fun. We picked this book because it seemed like one of the easiest to make into a short movie, when I would have probably preferred to read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
As I'm not used to reading literature from the 1700's, it was a little more cha ...more
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