Gulliver’s Travels (1726) is a novel by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift that satirizes the follies and frailties of humankind and mocks the English customs and politics of its day. A parody of popular travel narratives, the book is narrated by Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon and sea captain who visits remote regions and describes four adventures. Gulliver meets the tiny Lilliputians, the giants of Brobdingnag, the scientifically minded Laputans, the rational Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos. The novel is considered to be Swift’s greatest satire and an important work of English-language literature.
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