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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. Brobdingnag - Wikipedia

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   Brobdingnag is a fictional land that is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The story's main character, Lemuel Gulliver, visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course.

4. 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.

5. 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]

6. 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 ...

7. 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.

8. Struldbrugg - Wikipedia

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   Chinese Taoism placed the Island of the Immortals eastward from China, while Swift places the struldbruggs near Japan.. The term struldbrug has been used in science fiction, most prolifically by Larry Niven, [5] Robert Silverberg, and Pohl & Kornbluth to describe supercentenarians.

9. Benjamin Motte - Wikipedia

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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]