With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defo
By “the finest satirist in the English language” (New York Times), Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels, is the extraordinary tale of Lemuel Gulliver
Featured title on PBS’s The Great American Read in 2018Lemuel Gulliver, English surgeon turned ship captain, embarks on four fantastic voyages, each a clash with strange beings and cultures̵
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
Classic / British English Gulliver travels across the sea from England and has an accident. He arrives in a country of very, very small people. What will they do with him? How will he talk to them? An
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
Presents Swift's satire on how the English should deal with the problem of Irish poverty by eating the excess Irish children, with questions and exercises related to the text.
