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2. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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   Outside Gulliver's Travels, Swift had expressed longstanding concern over the corruption of the English language, and he had proposed language reform. He had also, in Battle of the Books and in general in A Tale of a Tub , expressed a preference for the Ancients (Classical authors) because their art was based directly upon nature, and not upon ...

5. Lemuel Gulliver - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Laputa - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver discovers Laputa, the flying island (illustration by J. J. Grandville) The Queen of Laputa, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s). Laputa / l ə ˈ p uː t ə / is a flying island described in the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. [1]

7. Gulliver's Travels (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver's Travels (known in some markets as Ted Danson's Gulliver's Travels) is an American-British TV miniseries based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel of the same name, produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment. This miniseries is notable for being one of the very few adaptations of Swift's novel to feature all ...

8. Gulliver's Travels (1939 film) - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. [3] Released to cinemas in the United States on December 22, 1939, [4] by Paramount Pictures, the story is a very loose adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel of the same name, specifically only the first part of four, which tells the story of ...

9. Luggnagg - Wikipedia

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   "The Allegory of Luggnagg and the Struldbruggs in 'Gulliver's Travels'" by Robert P. Fitzgerald, Studies in Philology, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Jul., 1968), pp. 657-676 "Licking the Dust in Luggnagg: Swift’s Reflections on the Legacy of King William’s Conquest of Ireland" by Anne Barbeau Gardiner, Swift Studies 8 (1993): 35-44