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Gulliver in Lilliput

By Jonathan SwiftAges 9-12About 9 minutes

Shipwrecked Gulliver wakes tied by threads on Lilliput, rebuilds the broken harbour wall with his hands and makes two quarrelling islands work side by side.

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How it begins

Lemuel Gulliver, a doctor, was working as the ship's doctor on a vessel that sailed to distant seas. One night the ship was caught in a storm and the waves threw its boat from side to side. Toward morning Gulliver found himself in shallow water and waded toward the beach.

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