英文原版5-Gullivers Travels(格列佛游记)

英文原版5-Gullivers Travels(格列佛游记)

作者:Jonathan Swift

出版社:Spain

出版年:2004-01-01

评分:4.7分

ISBN:570406110509

所属分类:文学理论

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英文原版5-Gullivers Travels(格列佛游记) 内容简介

Lemukl Gulliver,a surgeon on a merchant ship, is shipwrecked onthe strange islandof lilliput where the inhabitants are onlysix inches tall. After they overcome their timidityabout the ginant in their midst, Gulliver becomes embroiled in theislanders' petty disputes about suchissues as whether it is better to break an egg at the big end or the liittle end ,the rivalry between those who wear high heels and those who prefer low heel, and theridiculous pomposity of their miniature emperor.
This is not the end of Gulliver's adventures,for helater finds himself on Brobdingnag ,where the natives are incrdibly tall; the flying island of Laputo, whhere thry intellectualise from dawm till dusk; and ,finally,the country of the wise Houyhnhnms and the vulgar Yahoos,All human life is satirised here,from politicians to priests and philosophers topoets .And yes,the truth is that we're all Yahoos.

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