Jonathan Swift & Otto Ernst Schmidt 1 hr 21 min read

Shipwrecked and washed ashore, a ship's surgeon wakes to find himself a captive giant among the tiny people of Lilliput.

This Dutch adaptation presents the Lilliput voyage of Jonathan Swift's 1726 'Gulliver's Travels,' the immortal satire of human folly and pride. Sharp, inventive, endlessly resonant. Read it for the most famous of Gulliver's voyages, retold for young Dutch readers with fine illustrations.

In its time

Published in 1726, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

1 hr 21 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).