The Meaning of the Palace on Fire Scene in Gulliver's Travels and Its Adaptations in Selected English and Polish Abridged Versions of Jonathan Swift's Novel

The palace on fire scene in the first part of Gulliver's Travels, when the main protagonist extinguishes the flames by urinating on them, has become the symbol of Swift's personal criticism of authority and the institution of monarchy. For obvious reasons, in children's version of the...

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