Gulliver’s Travels (Real reads)
Author: Tony Evans
An amazing sight met my eyes. All around me were dozens of human creatures a little less than six inches high, chattering together in high-pitched voices in a strange language.When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean, it s the start of a series of adventures stranger than he could possibly have imagined. After the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput become suspicio….Read More
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