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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
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My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
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Creativity has no limits and imagination knows no boundaries. Jonathan Swift gave words to all those dreams that children may have in their days and nights of discovering a new world with some new creatures. Gulliver's Travels is one of those masterpieces that introduced new trends in literature. However, just the first paragraph tells you nothing about what is going to come of it and it lets the reader go on discover what the story has to offer.
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