Gulliver's Travels
Subtitle: a voyage to Lilliput, a voyage to Brobdingnag
By: by Jonathan Swift ; with illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk.
Contributors: Kirk, Maria Louise, b. 1860, ill.
Series: The Stories all children love series
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Table of contents: title: A Voyage to Lilliput; label: Chapter I
title: The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family - His First Inducement to Travel - He Is Shipwrecked, and Swims for His Life - Gets Safe on Shore in the Country of Lilliput - Is Made a Prisoner, and Carried Up the Country
pagenum: 15; label: Chapter II
title: The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Comes to See the Author in His Confinement - The Emperor's Person and Habits Described - Learned Men Appointed to Teach the Author Their Language - He Gains Favor by His Mild Disposition - His Pockets Are Searched, and His Sword and Pistols Taken from Him
pagenum: 31; label: Chapter III
title: The Author Diverts the Emperor, and His Nobility of Both Sexes, in a Very Uncommon Manner - The Diversions of the Court of Lilliput Described - The Author Has His Liberty Granted Him Upon Certain Conditions
pagenum: 45; label: Chapter IV
title: Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, Described, Together with the Emperor's Palace - A Conversation Between the Author and a Principal Secretary, Concerning the Affairs of That Empire - The Author Offers to Serve the Emperor in His Wars
pagenum: 57; label: Chapter V
title: The Author, by an Extraordinary Stratagem, Prevents an Invasion - A High Title of Honor Is Conferred Upon Him - Ambassadors Arrive from the Emperor of Blefuscu, and Sue for Peace
pagenum: 65; label: Chapter VI
title: Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; Their Learning, Laws, and Customs; The Manner of Educating Their Children - The Author's Way of Living in That Country - His Vindication of a Great Lady
pagenum: 73; label: Chapter VII
title: The Author Being Informed of a Design to Accuse Him of High Treason, Makes His Escape to Blefuscu - His Reception There
pagenum: 89; label: Chapter VIII
title: The Author, by a Lucky Accident, Finds Means to Leave Blefuscu; and, After Some Difficulties, Returns Safe to His Native Country
pagenum: 101; title: A Voyage to Brobdingnag; label: Chapter I
title: A Great Storm Described; the Longboat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country - He Is Left on Shore, Is Seized by One of the Natives, and Carried to a Farmer's House - His Reception, with Several Accidents That Happened There - A Description of the Inhabitants
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter II
title: A Description of the Farmer's Daughter - The Author Carried to a Market Town, and Then to the Metropolis - The Particulars of His Journey
pagenum: 132; label: Chapter III
title: The Author Sent for to Court - The Queen Buys Him of His Master the Farmer, and Presents Him to the King - He Disputes with His Majesty's Great Scholars - An Apartment at Court Provided for the Author - He Is in High Favor with the Queen - He Stands Up for the Honor of His Own Country - His Quarrels with the Queen's Dwarf
pagenum: 141; label: Chapter IV
title: The Country Described - A Proposal for Correcting Modern Maps - The King's Palace, and Some Account of the Metropolis - The Author's Way of Travelling - The Chief Temple Described
pagenum: 157; label: Chapter V
title: Several Adventures That Happened to the Author - The Execution of a Criminal - The Author Shows His Skill in Navigation
pagenum: 165; label: Chapter VI
title: Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen - He Shows His Skill in Music - The King Inquires into the State of England, Which the Author Relates to Him - The King's Observations Thereon
pagenum: 180; label: Chapter VII
title: The Author's Love of His Country - He Makes a Proposal of Much Advantage to the King, Which Is Rejected - The King's Great Ignorance in Politics - The Learning of That Country Very Imperfect and Confined - The Laws and Military Affairs, and Parties in the State
pagenum: 194; label: Chapter VIII
title: The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers - The Author Attends Them - The Manner in Which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related - He Returns to England
pagenum: 204