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Jan 2024
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - E...

Bedtime Stories with Taesha Glasgow
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Tonight's sleep story is Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Published in 1726, it is the story of Lemuel Gulliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships". In this episode, Gulliver recounts the early years of his life and what happened when he was shipwrecked and washed ashore in Lilliput, a land of tiny people.


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