1.  
    Titles of some other works by the same author:
    Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books

2.  Title: Gulliver's Travels Books (I & II)
    Explain the Title: The book tells about the travels of Gulliver.

3.  Date of publication: 1977     4.Edition:Everyman
    First published: 1726

5.  Genre: Four satirical stories in prose.

6.  Themes: A satire, in the first book he satirizes the English
    politics, which are symbolized by the inhabitants of Lilliput. In
    the second book Gulliver symbolizes the English people. He tells
    the king of Brobdingnag about the Daily life in England.  The
    King tells him as follows:
    ' By what I have gathered from your own relation ... I cannot but
    conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race
    of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon
    the surface of earth'.

7.  List of main characters and description of them:
    - Lemuel Gulliver: a married man, who has studied medicines and
    works as a ship surgeon. He likes to travel a lot because he is
    very interested in  other country's and their cultures.

8.  Narrative Technique: Narrative prose.

9.  a) Time lapse: Liliput ñ1 year
                   Brobdingnag ñ2 years
    b)In what period is the story situated?  18th century.

10. Style:Language is quite difficult, old-English.

11. Stray notes:none

12. What is your own opinion of the work?
    I found the book quite difficult,but I liked the satirical aspect
    of the stories. 

13. Short summary:
    On his first voyage Gulliver is shipwrecked. He comes in
    Lilliput, a land were all the people are twelf times as short as
    he is. He learns their language their laws and their habbits. He
    gets a title of honour when he takes the fleet of Blefuscu out of
    the water. But when he makes water on the emperor's palace it's
    decided he should die. But he escapes. 
    On his second voyage he gets into a great storm and comes in a
    land of giants(12 times as big as he is). He is found by a
    farmer. Who takes him to a market and to the metropolis. He is
    sold to the queen. He learns that these people are very nice.
    At the end he is picked up by a large bird and dropped in the
    sea, where he is picked up by a ship.
                                                         NAAM!!!!!!!
                                                 10-Feb-1990, 6-III  
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels I & II

I.  A voyage to Liliput
    Gulliver always wanted to go to sea. He has studied a lot for it.
    On one of his voyages his ship is shipwrecked. He is the only one
    who reaches land. He falls asleep. When Gulliver wakes up he is
    bound to the ground. Then he sees the Lilliputians, men not
    taller than a few inches. They take him to the town. They keep
    him prisoner but take care of him. The emperor of Liliput, a
    little bit taller than the other Lilliputians, comes to see
    Gulliver, who makes a good impression on him. He is taught the
    language of Liliput. Gulliver is set free on the condition he
    will not leave Liliput. The emperor tells Gulliver about
    Liliput's two problems: The internal conflict between the low-
    and the high-heels and the conflict with Blefuscu, another
    country. The war is fought about the question: on which end one
    should cut an egg. To help the emperor Gulliver takes the fleet
    of Blefuscu to Liliput. Gulliver gets a title of honour.  
    But when he refuses to colonize Blefuscu and makes water on the
    emperor's palace (it was on fire), it is decided his eyes will be
    put out and he will starve to death. Fortunately he is informed
    and escapes to Blefuscu, where he finds a boat of normal size and
    he escapes to the sea and is picked up by a passing ship which
    brings him home.



II. On his second voyage, Gulliver's ship gets into a storm and they
    get hundred of miles out of course. When they go ashore for fresh
    water, Gulliver is left at the island. He is caught by a farmer,
    twelve times as high as he is. The farmer gives him to his
    daughter who takes good care of him and teaches him the language
    of Brobdingnag. He calls her Glumdalclitch.
    The farmer uses Gulliver as an attraction at the markets and in
    pubs, but this reduces Gulliver's health, so the farmer sells him
    and his daughter to the Queen. Everyone there is delighted with
    him except for the Queen's dwarf, who doesn't get the attention
    he used to get. The Queen gets Gulliver a kind of cage in which
    he can live and be transported.
    Gulliver learns that these people are very kind. (No corruption,
    conspiracy and clear laws). When he offers the King to make
    gunpowder it is rejected. One day Gulliver gets to the seashore
    and is picked up by a bird which drops him in the sea. There he
    is found by a passing ship.


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