格列佛游記（英文版）

　　《格列佛游記》英國18世紀優(yōu)秀的諷刺作家和政論家喬納森·斯威夫特代表作。故事大旨意在抨擊當時英國的議會政治與反動宗教勢力，是一本幻想游記為文體的諷刺小說。故事以一個外科醫(yī)生格列佛的口吻敘述了在航海時遇難、漂流到幾個奇異國度的經歷。深刻反諷時政的腐敗，以離奇、甚至令人作嘔的情節(jié)，諷刺學究的愚蠢可笑，并且省思人性的不同面向。　本書為全英文版，同時配有配套英文朗讀，讓讀者在品讀精彩文章的同時，亦能提升英文閱讀水平　Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver， who is an educated and trained surgeon. He speaks to the readers retelling his experiences at sea. Presented as a simple traveler's narrative， Gulliver's adventures are divided into four parts.　The first part is situated in Lilliput where he finds himself in the company of thousands of miniature people called Lilliputians. The second is on the peninsulatype land of Brobdingnag， an opposite world from Lilliput where Gulliver becomes the Lilliputian and everyone is a giant to him. The third part moves to the island of Laputa， a floating island inhabited by theoreticians and academics which oppresses the land below， called Balnibarbi. Finally in the fourth part he arrives in an unknown land. This land is populated by Houyhnhnms， the rational-thinking horses who rule， and by Yahoos， the inferior brutish servants to the horses who bear the image of a human.　First published in 1726， this collection of Lemuel Gulliver's fascinating voyages all over the world， has been loved， read and re-read by every child and adult familiar with the English language.

　　喬納森·斯威夫特（Jonathan Swift）出生于愛爾蘭首都都柏林，著名作家，政論家，諷刺文學大師，以《格列佛游記》和《一只桶的故事》等作品聞名于世。斯威夫特是英國啟蒙主義時期的作家，但卻不同于大多數(shù)反對封建主義、謳歌資本主義的啟蒙主義作家，他對資本主義本質進行了無情的鞭撻，并反映了普通人生活的艱辛與困苦。同時他放棄了長期統(tǒng)治英國文學界的古典主義文學標準，進行現(xiàn)實主義創(chuàng)作，從而使他的作品具有極高的文學價值。