Lilliput and the Land of Giants

Author: (English) Swift, J. (Author), translated by Zhang Jian
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: In the second voyage of Gulliver, he is shipwrecked and drifts to a Lilliputian land, becoming a prisoner of the six-inch-tall people. Gulliver becomes a "giant" and is called the "Giant Mountain." He can eat meat and wine brought by fifty carts of Lilliputians in one meal, and his palm is large enough for five or six Lilliputians to dance freely. He helps the Lilliputian kingdom defeat the invasion of a neighboring country and earns the king's favor, but loses it again when he accidentally uses urine to extinguish a fire in the queen's palace out of desperation. In his second voyage, Gulliver is captured and becomes a plaything of giants over seven feet tall. Everything to Gulliver is enormous, and he instantly becomes a "dwarf." Due to his "small" stature, he often encounters danger—a single apple could knock him to the ground, monkeys would carry him in their arms like babies, extracting food from their cheeks and feeding it to him, and even when drinking cheese, he had to be careful to avoid drowning in the bowl.