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Discussion 5_Exploring World Literature

Discussion 5_Exploring World Literature

Q 1. Click on the link below to view images of the first edition of Gulliver's Travels. Does seeing the book in this form add to (or change) your understanding of it? If so, in what way? Travels into several remote nations... Note: The color illustrations are from a 19th-century edition. The other images are of the first (or very early) edition(s).

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I have always enjoyed reading Gulliver’s Travels. Seeing this illustration actually transport me back to the time when this book was actually written. I really like the first illustration of a ship which is minimalistic in nature. The picture of Captain Gulliver also helps us to imagine on how the captain might have looked. The printed edition looks like some historical document which gives the description of some important journey that has been of pivotal importance in the past. I also liked the part where a reader had written “Nothing but what