Dutch · Intermediate
Read Gulliver's reizen naar Lilliput en Brobdingnag in Dutchwith every sentence explained
English title: Gulliver's Travels: Lilliput and Brobdingnag
Jonathan Swift · 1726
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About the book
Gulliver's reizen naar Lilliput en Brobdingnag by Jonathan Swift was first published in 1726. In Passage you read the full text in the Dutch translation by Albert Verwey, marked intermediate and filed under children and fantasy. It runs to about 50,300 words.
First he is a giant among tiny people. Then he is a tiny man among giants.
Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon with a taste for adventure, is shipwrecked and swims ashore on an unknown coast. He wakes to find himself pinned to the ground by hundreds of threads — a prisoner of the Lilliputians, a people no taller than a hand. Soon he is caught up in their court intrigues and their absurd war with the neighbouring island of Blefuscu.
On his next voyage the tables turn. In Brobdingnag, a land of giants, Gulliver is the size of a toy: shown off at markets, cared for by the farmer's kind young daughter Glumdalclitch, and brought before a king who has some sharp questions about life back in Europe.
Jonathan Swift's 1726 satire is both a thrilling fantasy and a sly mirror held up to human pride. This edition contains the two famous voyages, translated by the great Dutch poet Albert Verwey.
- Author
- Jonathan Swift
- First published
- 1726
- Language
- Dutch
- Translated by
- Albert Verwey
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Children, Fantasy
- Length
- About 50,300 words
How it opens
Mijn vader had een kleine bezitting in Nottinghamshire; ik was de derde van vijf zoons.
Kort na mijn terugkomst van Leiden, werd ik, op aanbeveling van mijn goeden meester, den heer Bates, dokter op de Swallow, gezagvoerder kaptein Abraham Pannell; bij wien ik drie en half jaar bleef en in dien tijd een reis of twee maakte naar de Levant en een paar andere streken. Toen ik terugkwam, besloot ik, mij in Londen te vestigen; waartoe de heer Bates mij aanspoorde; en door hem werd ik aanbevolen bij verscheidene patiënten.
Reading Gulliver's reizen naar Lilliput en Brobdingnag in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Dutch. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday Dutch feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
