Gulliver's Travels

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Gulliver’s Travels, first published in 1726, is Jonathan Swift’s best known full-length work, and is both a parody of the “travellers’ tales” popular at the time and a satire on human nature. Throughout the four stories, ship’s surgeon Gulliver travels to distant lands, meets strange new peoples like the diminutive Lilliputians and the gigantic Brobdingnags, defends his ship from a pirate attack, and is marooned on a deserted island.

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4.1
94 reviews
Harrison Johnson
October 12, 2014
Gulliver’s travels is a book that was originally published in 1726, that is older than our own country. The books setting is set mainly from 1669 through 1715 on ships and undiscovered islands and countries. During this time era there was still a lot of land that had not been discovered by Europeans. This is why I think that the writer wrote about the main character and how he discovers places in the world that nobody or not many people had been to. I have also seen where a movie had been made based off of the book in 2010. As the book began Gulliver was in London getting ready to set out on a ship to trade as a surgeon on the ship. Upon getting there he was ship wrecked and then he swam to a nearby island. He fell asleep and then woke up to find himself a prisoner of little people that were about six inches tall and himself to be much taller than them. The people took Gulliver to their capital city and gave him an old palace with walls to be his home. Gulliver eventually found out where he was, how to speak their language and the n established some respect from the people. They let him fight against their enemy on the other island across a channel. When Gulliver did th
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Art Libris
August 3, 2015
If you take the time to read this classic book, you'll find that not only is it funny, it has an interesting perspective on human nature. Recommended for readers starting to get into the classics.
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Karin Korenkova
September 29, 2015
It is a good book but when I was doing work English work at school Gulliver looked MEGA freaky because its mouth was so silly eye brows MEGA freaky and he had very long hair HE LOOKED SOOO STUPID!¡!¡!¡!😲
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About the author

Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best known for his works Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually became Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick’s Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.

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