Gulliver's Travels And Other Writings by Jonathan Swift
And Other Writings
A satirical voyage narrative follows a seasoned ship’s surgeon who recounts fantastical journeys to lands of tiny people, towering giants, a floating island obsessed with abstruse science, and a society of rational horses contrasted with brutish human-like creatures; through vivid and often savage irony it skewers political factionalism, religious hypocrisy, scientific pretensions, and human vanities, moving from comic adventure to bitter misanthropy while parodying travel literature and exposing the limits of reason and the corrupting habits of society.
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- Published
- 1726
- Nationality
- Irish
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
- Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
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