格列佛游记（英文版）

　　《格列佛游记》英国18世纪优秀的讽刺作家和政论家乔纳森·斯威夫特代表作。故事大旨意在抨击当时英国的议会政治与反动宗教势力，是一本幻想游记为文体的讽刺小说。故事以一个外科医生格列佛的口吻叙述了在航海时遇难、漂流到几个奇异国度的经历。深刻反讽时政的腐败，以离奇、甚至令人作呕的情节，讽刺学究的愚蠢可笑，并且省思人性的不同面向。　本书为全英文版，同时配有配套英文朗读，让读者在品读精彩文章的同时，亦能提升英文阅读水平　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.

　　乔纳森·斯威夫特（Jonathan Swift）出生于爱尔兰首都都柏林，著名作家，政论家，讽刺文学大师，以《格列佛游记》和《一只桶的故事》等作品闻名于世。斯威夫特是英国启蒙主义时期的作家，但却不同于大多数反对封建主义、讴歌资本主义的启蒙主义作家，他对资本主义本质进行了无情的鞭挞，并反映了普通人生活的艰辛与困苦。同时他放弃了长期统治英国文学界的古典主义文学标准，进行现实主义创作，从而使他的作品具有极高的文学价值。