This is Jonathan Swift's most famous book, a story, which has increased so steadily in popularity ever since it was first published in 1727 that today it is one of the world's most entertaining classics. Children love Swift's imaginative tales and brilliant inventions which rival their wildest fancies of what remote places in the world must be like.
Gulliver is perhaps the world's most famous traveler. His journeys begin when he is shipwrecked and lands on Lilliput and they continue until he has visited more strange lands and seen more strange sights than almost any other man in the world.
Lilliput, for example, is inhabited by a race of people only six inches high. It takes 600 of their beds pushed together to provide a place in which Gulliver can sleep! He rewards their hospitality, however, by helping them win a war when he tows the enemy fleet to shore.
On his other travels, Gulliver visits the land of giants, the land of horses who govern themselves and dozens of other strange and exciting places.
Every child will enjoy the adventure and humor of this great classic and will want to add it to his permanent library of the world's great books.
Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white exclusively for THE ILLUSTRATED JUNIOR LIBRARY.
—from the dust jacket of the popular edition
Revised and slightly abridged for readers of our time.
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