Books by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

The ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver sails from England on four voyages and is cast among the tiny Lilliputians, the giant Brobdingnagians, the mad projectors of flying Laputa, and the rational horses called Houyhnhnms, each a mirror held up to human folly. Swift frames the satire from a real England, and even gives his imaginary lands pseudo-coordinates, so that Gulliver departs from London's docks toward islands placed off Sumatra, the Pacific, Japan and the southern oceans.

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