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A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the worldliterally! Jack Black stars as Lemuel Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilisation known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the iPod ...
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Part of Penguin&s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Shipwrecked & cast adrift Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion & fame seem ridiculous His subsequent encounters
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Gulliver&s Travels A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the world literally! Jack Black stars as Lemuel Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilisation known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the iPod The Chronicles of Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Rediscover Narnia with a brand new adventure While back home in England Edmund (Skandar Keynes) Lucy (Georgie Henley) & their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) are pulled into a magical painting transporting them back to Narnia for their next great quest Reunited with King Caspian (Ben Barnes) aboard the mighty royal ship the Dawn Treader Lucy Edmund & Eustace set sail toward the islands of the East battling slave traders violent storms sea serpents & other new dangers at every turn Despite these perilous obstacles they stay the course in hopes of vanquishing the evil mist before Narnia is lost forever Night at the Museum After nice-guy but down-on-his-luck Larry Daley takes a graveyard-shift job at the Museum of Natural History he discovers that the ancient curse he heard about is really true-the exhibits come to life after dark Taunted by a frisky T-rex hordes of Roman soldiers & a mischievous monkey Larry must make use of the rough & ready Teddy Roosevelt to control the mayhem-but nothing will work to control the laughs ...
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the worldliterally! Jack Black stars as Lemuel Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilisation known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the iPod ...
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the worldliterally! Jack Black stars as Lemur Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilization known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the ipod! ...
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A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man & society the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift&s Gulliver&s Travels is edited with an introduction & notes by Robert Demaria Jr Gulliver&s Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver a ship&s surgeon In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people & their city he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god However in Brobdingnag a land of giants tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation exhibited as a curiosity at markets & fairs In Laputa a flying island he encounters a society of speculators & projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan & calculate their country lies in ruins Gulliver&s final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire
- in contrast to the Yahoos filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans This text based on the first edition of 1726 reproduces all the original illustrations &

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an introduction by Robert Demaria Jr which discusses the ways Gulliver&s Travels has been interpreted since its first publication Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin Sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six Swift later attended Trinity College Dublin where he received his BA degree in 1686 He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language which stemmed from his criticism of Britain&s repressive colonial policies in Ireland Among Swift&s best known works is his ironic masterpiece &A Modest Proposal& (1729) & his novel Gulliver&s Travels (1726) If you enjoyed Gulliver&s Travels you might like HG Wells&s The Time Machine also available in Penguin Classics &A masterwork of irony that contains both a dark & bitter meaning & a joyous extraordinary creativity of imagination& Malcolm Bradbury


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The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver&s Travels by Jonathan Swift& Fifteen hundred of the Emperor&s largest horses each about four inches & an half high were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis which as I said was half a Mile distant&A savage & hilarious satire Gulliver&s Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked & adrift subject to bizarre & unnerving encounters with among others quarrelling Lilliputians philosophizing horses & the brutish Yahoo tribe that change his view of humanity
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the worldliterally! Jack Black stars as Lemur Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilization known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the ipod! Actors Emily Blunt Jason Segel Jack Black Amanda Peet TJ Miller Chris O& Dowd Romany Malco Catherine Tate & James Corden Director Rob Letterman Certificate PGYear 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx) ...
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Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics &I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth& Shipwrecked on the high seas Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour
- the giants of Brobdingnag the Houyhnhnms & the Yahoos In this scathing satire on the politics & morals of the 18th Century Swift&s condemnation of society & its institutions still resonates today
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the worldliterally! Jack Black stars as Lemur Gulliver an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput populated by a tiny civilization known as Lilliputians With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size superior knowledge & incredible inventions like the ipod! ...
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Gulliver's Travels By Jonathan Swift (Paperback, 1992)

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury Jonathan Swift&s classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726 seven years after Defoe&s Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal) As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies whose names have entered the English language notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput the giants of Brobdingnag and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland where talking horses are the dominant species It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit and its attack on political and financial corruption as well as abuses in science continue to resonate in our own times
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With an Introduction & Notes by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury Jonathan Swift&s classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726 seven years after Defoe&s Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame & breadth of appeal) As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands & societies whose names have entered the English language notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput the giants of Brobdingnag & the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland where talking horses are the dominant species It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit & its attack on political & financial corruption as well as abuses in science continue to resonate in our own times

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