Gulliver's Travels - Swift, Jonathan
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) is a brilliant work of imagination, a socio-political satire, and a perennial classic. Of all the fantastic adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and world traveler, probably the best known one is his journey to Lilliput, the land of tiny people, where he is a giant. But here the reader can become acquainted with the rest of his equally remarkable journeys, including Brobdingnag, the land of giants, Laputa, the island in the air, the country of Houyhnhnms, the horse people, and, of course, the proverbial Yahoos.

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) is a brilliant work of imagination, a socio-political satire, and a perennial classic. Of all the fantastic adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and world traveler, probably the best known one is his journey to Lilliput, the land of tiny people, where he is a giant. But here the reader can become acquainted with the rest of his equally remarkable journeys, including Brobdingnag, the land of giants, Laputa, the island in the air, the country of Houyhnhnms, the horse people, and, of course, the proverbial Yahoos.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".