Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

What happens when the world shrinks to the size of a thimble, or swells until a common housecat becomes a monster? This 1910 adaptation introduces young readers to Jonathan Swift's extraordinary voyages through two of his most famous lands. John Lang distills the wit and wonder of the original, preserving Gulliver's astonished encounters with the minuscule Lilliputians and the towering Brobdingnagians. In Lilliput, Gulliver must escape armies of tiny soldiers and navigate a kingdom where a royal dispute over egg-cracking threatens war. In Brobdingnag, the explorer himself becomes the curiosity, examined like a strange insect by giants whose ordinary words boom like thunder. Lang preserves the sense of wonder and the subtle absurdities without losing the satirical spark that made Swift's work legendary. For curious children who have ever imagined being tiny or enormous, who love adventure and the delight of seeing the world from a radically different size.