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Introduction

About This Book

Gulliver’s Travels (full title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World) is a satirical novel by Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.

It follows the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon and later a captain, who voyages to four strange lands:

  • Part I — A Voyage to Lilliput: among the tiny six-inch people
  • Part II — A Voyage to Brobdingnag: among the giants
  • Part III — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan: among the abstract scientists and the immortals
  • Part IV — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms: among the rational horses and the savage Yahoos

It is a masterpiece of satire and one of the first and most enduring works of the English novel.

About the Author

Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and cleric, best known for Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal.

Source

This book is in the public domain and may be freely copied, distributed, and modified.