Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Original en 102947 words First published 1726 England

Jonathan Swift's masterpiece of satire, disguised as a traveller's tale and sharp as a blade. Shipwrecked surgeon Lemuel Gulliver is cast successively among the miniature Lilliputians, the giants of Brobdingnag, the flying island of Laputa, and the country of the rational Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos. Each voyage holds a mirror to European politics, science and human vanity — and two and a half centuries on, Swift's mockery of pride and pettiness has lost none of its edge.

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