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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 1726
81%of this book is inside a 1600-word core English vocabulary
103,301words in the book
8,086different words
5,624beyond the core

Ranked #16 of 32 — easiest first.

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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.

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