Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satirical novel, published in 1726, about the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, to strange and distant lands. In Lilliput he meets tiny people locked in petty political disputes, and in Brobdingnag he is a small man among giants. He later visits the impractical scholars of Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, rational horses who live alongside brutish humanlike creatures called Yahoos. Through these journeys, Swift mocks politics, learning and human nature.

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