Jonathan Swift

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The Language of Balnibarbi Jonathan Swift

Lemuel Gulliver finds that the people of Balnibarbi just don’t appreciate their hardworking academics.

Lemuel Gulliver is visiting the distinguished Academy in Balnibarbi, where absent-minded professors pursue countless schemes for bettering society. In the School of Languages, for example, some experts plan to do away with verbs, participles and words of more than one syllable, but their colleagues are far bolder.

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The Peculiar Customs of Lilliput Jonathan Swift

The people of Lilliput are strangely small, but their ideas are bizarre in a big way.

Lemuel Gulliver has been carried on a strange journey to unknown peoples and cultures, which has now brought him to Lilliput, where the people are barely six inches high.

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