Book Description

Excerpt from Gulliver's Travels: Into Some Remote Countries Nearly two hundred years have passed since the work commonly known as "Gulliver's Travels" was first given to the public by its author, Jonathan Swift. It was very popular from the beginning, and is now generally regarded as one of the great books of the world. Although it was not written for children, its accounts of adventures among tiny dwarfs and monstrous giants have always had a fascination for young readers. In its original form, however, there are many passages of no interest to boys and girls; the style is tedious, and numerous passages are better skipped than read. For these reasons I have rewritten and simplified the first two parts of the work, I have shortened the narratives by more than half, and in other ways I have tried to make the story suitable, in every respect, for young people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.