Gulliver’s Travels

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　　格列佛是一名醫生，喜愛航海冒險，有日終讓他成了船醫，跟隨著水手們周遊列國，直到有次航行遇上了暴風雨，船隻觸礁破裂，他漂流到一個島上，醒來時發現自己全身都被繩索綁住，連頭髮都被牢牢地盯在地面上了。周遭全是手掌般大小的小人。

　　在小人國，格列佛成了巨人，成了小人國世界的英雄，他幫助小人國對抗鄰國，立下功勞，然而卻遭小人國的諸位大臣忌妒，甚至惡化了國內兩黨長久以來的歧見，格列佛不得不趕緊逃離小人國回到故鄉。

　 　然而不到兩個月，他又再次出海，這次他闖入巨人國的世界了！格列佛在巨人國裡成了小人，被農夫發現，陪伴農夫家的女兒玩耍，還被帶到酒吧的桌上雜耍表 演。皇宮內聽說有這一號人物，便讓農夫帶到皇宮去了。格列佛在皇宮內深得君主和皇后的歡心，每次外出遊玩也都驚險萬分，要逃離大狗、大鳥甚至是……大青 蛙！

　　*此中文簡介取自<<格列佛遊記>>由晨星出版

　　The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary. First he is shipwrecked in a strange land, and finds himself a prisoner of the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. Then he washes up in Brobdingnag, where the people are giants of extraordinary proportions. Further exploits see him stranded with the scientists and philosophers of Laputa, and meeting a race of talking horses who rule over bestial humans.

　　One of the finest satires in the English language, Gulliver’s Travels delights in the mockery of everything from government to religion and – despite the passing of nearly three centuries – remains just as funny and relevant today.

　　This gorgeous Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver’s Travels features the beautiful artwork of the celebrated English illustrator Arthur Rackham, and an afterword by author and critic, Henry Hitchings.

強納森‧史威特 Jonathan Swift

　　自幼喪父，求學時跟著叔父。成年求職先後擔任私人 秘書與牧 師。後來成為愛爾蘭都柏林聖派屈克教堂的主持牧師，並以多個筆名發表著作《格列佛遊記》、《一個溫和的建議》、《桶的故事》等，他也為當時的輝格黨和托利 黨著寫政治文宣手冊，是當時最具代表性的英國文學諷刺作家，擅長詩歌體與青少年著作。逝世後留下一筆財產成立聖派屈克醫院，至今仍作為精神疾病醫院營運著。

　　Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. He spent most of his childhood in Ireland until, aged twenty-one, he moved to England, where he found employment as secretary to the diplomat Sir William Temple. On Temple’s death in 1699, Swift returned to Dublin to pursue a career in the Church. By this time he was also publishing in a variety of genres, and between 1704 and 1729 he produced a string of brilliant satires, of which Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal are the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, and he was buried there upon his death in 1745.