這本書Gulliver’s Travels，有專家詳註本。
Gulliver's travels: an annotated text with critical essays ...
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books.google.com - The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, Brobdingnag, a land of giants,我中學時讀過中英對照本海外軒渠錄 (1930年代的書？)。進年有單德興譯本：格里弗遊記，聯經，2013。
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland on this day in 1667.
"But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me? Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. "
--from "Gulliver's Travels"
An immediate success on its publication in 1726, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was read, as John Gay put it, "from the cabinet council to the nursery." Dean Swift's great satire is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.
Jonathan Swift’s "Gulliver’s Travels" was published on this day in 1726.
"...the trade of a soldier is held the most honourable of all others; because a soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can."
--from "Gulliver’s Travels"
--from "Gulliver’s Travels"
