Gulliver in Lilliput
Classical Stories · No. 84 — A giant tied down in his sleep by six-inch people.
- Classical Stories
- 43 min
- Ages 15–99
- 7 chapters
About this audiobook
Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, is wrecked and washes ashore exhausted; he wakes to find himself pinned to the beach by countless tiny ropes, surrounded by the Lilliputians — people no taller than his hand. Fearful at first, they come to trust the 'Man-Mountain,' feed him enormous quantities of their tiny food, and make him a wonder of their empire. Gulliver learns their ways — and their great affairs: a bitter war with a neighboring island over which end of an egg one should crack, and fierce court rivalries decided by who can jump highest over a stick. He helps them, even wading out to capture an enemy fleet single-handed, but the tiny politics grow dangerous, and Gulliver comes to see how the enormous passions of the little people look from up where he stands.
Why it's worth a listen
A shipwrecked sailor wakes to find himself staked to the ground by hundreds of ropes — the captives of a whole nation of people barely six inches tall. From Swift's classic, the wonderful, funny adventure of a giant among tiny people whose great and serious quarrels (like which end of a boiled egg to crack) look, from his height, gently absurd — a mirror held up to our own big small squabbles.
A question to keep
How much of what people fight over would look silly to someone seeing it from the outside?
Chapters
- Washed Up on the Shingle
- A Mountain of an Appetite
- The High Art of the Low Jump
- The Great Egg Controversy
- The Fleet in the Shallows
- A Shadow in the Night
- A Question to Keep