Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

"Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" by Jonathan Swift is a satirical prose novel published in 1726. Ship surgeon Lemuel Gulliver embarks on extraordinary voyages to bizarre lands—encountering tiny people obsessed with trivial disputes, giants who mock European society, impractical intellectuals, and rational horses living among savage human-like creatures. Through these strange encounters, Swift crafts a biting satire of human nature and civilization's flaws. Originally written as political commentary rather than children's fare, this enduring classic continues to challenge readers with its sharp critique of society.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, clergyman and pamphleteer, and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin for the last thirty years of his life. He published Gulliver's Travels anonymously in 1726 as a genuine sailor's narrative, complete with maps, and it sold out in a week. His pamphlets defended Irish interests against English economic policy so effectively that a reward was offered for his name, and A Modest Proposal — which recommends that the Irish poor sell their children as food — remains the most savage piece of irony in English. He left his estate to found a hospital for the mentally ill.