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Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
Glubbdubdrib (also spelled Glubdubdrib or Glubbdubdribb in some editions) was an island of sorcerers and magicians, one of the imaginary countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift. [1] The episode on Glubbdubdrib "explores the theme of humanity's progressive ...
Herman Moll: A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691, London 1697.Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll [citation needed] and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven.
Illustration of The Engine from an edition of Gulliver's Travels. The Engine is a fictional device described in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is possibly the earliest known reference to a device in any way resembling a modern computer. [1] The Engine is a device that generates permutations of word sets.
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Benjamin Motte (/ m ɒ t /; November 1693 – 12 March 1738 [1]) was a London publisher and son of Benjamin Motte, Sr. Motte published many works and is well known for his publishing of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. [2]
Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy reused Gulliver as the protagonist of two novels recounting his further travels, Voyage to Faremido (1916) and Capillaria (1921). Both stay true to the character as a surgeon with a wife and children, but transpose their plot (and retroactively Gulliver's four earlier travels) to the then-contemporary years leading up to, during, and after World War I.
Gulliver's Travels is a book by Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels may also refer to: Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants, a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès; Gulliver's Travels, a 1924 Austrian silent adventure film; The New Gulliver, a 1935 Soviet film; Gulliver's Travels, an animated film