One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Gulliver's Travels

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Gulliver's Travels

By DEAN SWIFT Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY I WAS of a Nottinghamshire family and educated at Cambridge. Likewise was I educated in…

Gulliver's Travels: Blefuscuan

One day the king, who was most friendly to me, came to me in great trouble. The Emperor of the neighboring kingdom of Blefuscu had…

Gulliver's Travels: Brobdingnagians

Of the Lilliputians, I used to say that they were people without a blemish in their persons, and the Brobdingnagians coarse beyond…

Gulliver's Travels: Houyhnhnms

A later voyage took me to the country of the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms. These Yahoos, being servile attendants to the Houyhnhnms, were of…

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