Book cover for Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

2010 Released
112 Pages
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Random House Books for Young ReadersISBN 9780375898198

Jonathan Swift's classic travel adventure has been adapted into an easy-reading Stepping Stones early chapter book, while keeping all the fun, humor, and unusual perspectives of the original story.

Gulliver has an itch to travel around the world, but whenever he steps on a ship, bad luck seems to find him. He is shipwrecked, abandoned, marooned, and mutinied against, and each time lands in a strange and curious place. First he discovers the kingdom of the six-inch-tall Lilliputians, then the country of the giant Brobdingnagians, then the island of the academic Laputans, which floats in the sky, and finally the noble realm of the horselike Houyhnhnms. Who knew there were so many unusual creatures under the sun?

Jonathan Swift

Born in Dublin in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an satirist, essayist and Anglican cleric most famous for his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. Initially publishing anonymously or under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier, he made a name for himself for his deadpan and ironic style exemplified by his satirical essay, A Modest Proposal (1729). He died in 1745.

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