Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel was first published in 1726, yet it is still valid today. Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship’s surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance. His travels take him to Lilliput where he is a giant observing tiny people. In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. The flying island of Laputa is the scene of his next voyage. The people plan and plot as their country lies in ruins. It is a world of illusion and distorted values. The fourth and final voyage takes him to the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses who rule the land.

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Contents

The Publisher to The Reader — 5

A Letter From Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson — 7

Part-I —

A Voyage to Lilliput — 15

1. Chapter 1 — 17

2. Chapter 2 — 28

3. Chapter 3 — 38

4. Chapter 4 — 46

5. Chapter 5 — 52

6. Chapter 6 — 59

7. Chapter 7 — 69

8. Chapter 8 — 78

Part-II —

A Voyage To Brobdingnag — 85

1. Chapter 1 — 87

2. Chapter 2 — 100

3. Chapter 3 — 106

4. Chapter 4 — 117

5. Chapter 5 — 122

6. Chapter 6 — 132

7. Chapter 7 — 141

8. Chapter 8 — 148

Part-III —

A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms — 161

1. Chapter 1 — 163

2. Chapter 2 — 170

3. Chapter 3 — 177

4. Chapter 4 — 183

5. Chapter 5 — 189

6. Chapter 6 — 196

7. Chapter 7 — 204

8. Chapter 8 — 212

9. Chapter 9 — 219

10. Chapter 10 — 225

11. Chapter 11 — 233

12. Chapter 12 — 242

Born in Dublin, Ireland on November 30, 1667. He was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer and poet, famous for works like Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier’s Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift was probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift published all of his works under pseudonyms–such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier–or anonymously. At the age of 77 he died in year 1745.