The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery.The travel begins with a short pream
It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed b
Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making
Gulliver’s TravelsA Classic of English LiteratureBy Jonathan SwiftA Prose SatireFirst published in 1726The book begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver, in the literary style of the time
