Goodies for the readers of Gulliver's Travels

If you have started reading Gulliver's Travels or if you are thinking of starting, or even if you are about to finish the book, you might care to have a look at the set of links below and go further on with your learning about Swift's novel.

From Glasgow University Library.

Lilliput and Blefuscu.

Brobdingnag.

The maps in Gulliver's Travels.

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