书名：Gulliver’s Travels 格列弗游记
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数460
作者：Jonathan Swift 乔纳森·斯威夫特
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2008
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531131
商品尺寸：10.7 x 1.9 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：326（以实物为准）

Gulliver’s Travels《格列弗游记》，也译为格列夫游记，是英国讽刺文学大师乔纳森•斯威夫特（Jonathan Swift）很具影响力的作品之一，是与《鲁滨逊漂流记》齐名的游记寓言类文学作品。出版几个世纪以来，被译成各种语言，深受全世界读者的青睐。书中乔纳森运用他擅长的手法，创造了政治讽刺与文学创作的完美结合。堪称文学界的经典之作。
A satirical view of the state of European government, and of petty differences between religions,
An inquiry into whether men are inherently corrupt or whether they become corrupted,
Each part is the reverse of the preceding part,
Gulliver’s viewpoint between parts is mirrored by that of his antagonists in the contrasting part.
With an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
and an Afterword by Nathanial Rich
Includes thirty illustrations by Charles Brock and five maps of Gulliver's journeys.  
Reviews:
In an English satire of the last century, Gulliver, returning from the land of the Lilliputians where the people were only three or four inches high, had grown so accustomed to consider himself a giant among them, that as he walked along the Streets of London he could not help crying out to carriages and passers-by to be careful and get out of his way for fear he should crush them, imagining that they were little and he was still a giant.... ( —Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Gulliver’s Travels is Jonathan Swift’s satiric masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship’s surgeon. First, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches tall. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet tall. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky, and a land where horses are endowed with reason and beasts are shaped like men.
Read by children as an adventure story and by adults as a devastating satire of society, Gulliver’s Travels remains a fascinating blend of travelogue, realism, symbolism, and fantastic voyage—all with a serious philosophical content.

Part I  A Voyage to Lilliput
Part II  A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Part III  A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan
Part IV  A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born inDublin, Ireland. From1689 to 1699, he worked as secretary to Sir William Temple in Moor Park, Surrey, England, returning for a short period to Ireland in 1694, where he was ordained an Anglican priest. It was during his stay in Moor Park that Swift discovered his talent for writing satire. From1708 to 1714, much of his time was spent on ecclesiasticmissions in London, where the brilliance of hispolitical pamphleteering earned him the respect of theleading governmental figures of his day.For theremaining thirty-odd years of his life, he served as Deanof St.Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. During this periodhe wroteGulliver’s Travels (published in 1726) and went on to become a national hero for defendingIreland against the inequities of the English Whigs. 

Leo Damrosch has taught at the universities of Virginiaand Marylandand at Harvard University, where he is presently Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature. He has published books on such subjects as Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, William Blake, and the eighteenth-century novel, His biographyJean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius wasone of five finalists for the 2005 NationalBook Award in Nonfiction, and it won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for best work of nonfiction.

Nathaniel Richis the author ofThe Mayor’s Tongue, a novel. He is the senior editor ofThe Paris Review and has written forThe New York Review of Books,Vanity Fair,TheNew York Times, andSlate, among otherpublications. 

No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty. But indeed few of them extend even to that length. They are expressed in the most plain and simple terms, wherein those people are not mercurial enough to discover above one interpretation: and to write a comment upon any law, is a capital crime. As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either. 
They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of mind: but their libraries are not very large; for that of the king, which is reckoned the largest, does not amount to above a thousand volumes, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, whence I had liberty to borrow what books I pleased. The queen’s joiner had contrived in one of Glumdalclitch’s rooms, a kind of wooden machine five–and–twenty feet high, formed like a standing ladder; the steps were each fifty feet long. It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.

Their style is clear, masculine, and smooth, but not florid; for they avoid nothing more than multiplying unnecessary words, or using various expressions. I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality. Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little old treatise, which always lay in Glumdalclitch’s bed chamber, and belonged to her governess, a grave elderly gentlewoman, who dealt in writings of morality and devotion. The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. However, I was curious to see what an author of that country could say upon such a subject. This writer went through all the usual topics of European moralists, showing “how diminutive, contemptible, and helpless an animal was man in his own nature; how unable to defend himself from inclemencies of the air, or the fury of wild beasts: how much he was excelled by one creature in strength, by another in speed, by a third in foresight, by a fourth in industry.” He added, “that nature was degenerated in these latter declining ages of the world, and could now produce only small abortive births, in comparison of those in ancient times.” He said “it was very reasonable to think, not only that the species of men were originally much larger, but also that there must have been giants in former ages; which, as it is asserted by history and tradition, so it has been confirmed by huge bones and skulls, casually dug up in several parts of the kingdom, far exceeding the common dwindled race of men in our days.” He argued, “that the very laws of nature absolutely required we should have been made, in the beginning of a size more large and robust; not so liable to destruction from every little accident, of a tile falling from a house, or a stone cast from the hand of a boy, or being drowned in a little brook.” From this way of reasoning, the author drew several moral applications, useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to repeat. For my own part, I could not avoid reflecting how universally this talent was spread, of drawing lectures in morality, or indeed rather matter of discontent and repining, from the quarrels we raise with nature. And I believe, upon a strict inquiry, those quarrels might be shown as ill–grounded among us as they are among that people.