Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Liliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and moral of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of…
Gulliver's Travels (originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships) is a satirical masterpiece written by Anglo-Irish author and clergyman Jonathan Swift, published in 1726. Framed as a travel memoir, the novel follows the fantastic voyages of Captain Lemuel Gulliver. Beneath its whimsic…
Gulliver's Travels (originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships) is a masterpiece of satirical literature written by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift and published in 1726. Disguised as a conventional, highly detailed travel memoir, the book is actually a fierce, biting satire…