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Fiction · 1726

Gulliver’s Travels

Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift

Reading time
about 7.5 h
Length
104,881 words · 200 pages
Structure
41 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Enlightenment

Lemuel Gulliver, ship’s surgeon, is wrecked, marooned, mutinied against and finally abandoned, and in each case washes up in a country that holds a mirror to his own: Lilliput, where he is a giant among the small; Brobdingnag, where he is small among giants; Laputa and its neighbours; and the land of the Houyhnhnms, where horses reason and men do not.

Jonathan Swift published the book anonymously in 1726. It was read at once as an adventure and as the most savage satire on politics, learning and human nature in English, and has been both ever since.

All four voyages are here, with the publisher’s note to the reader and Gulliver’s own letter to his cousin Sympson, in which he complains that six months after publication the book has corrected nothing at all.

Contents

  1. The Publisher to the Reader
  2. A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson
  3. Part I — A Voyage to Lilliput
  4. Chapter I
  5. Chapter II
  6. Chapter III
  7. Chapter IV
  8. Chapter V
  9. Chapter VI
  10. Chapter VII
  11. Chapter VIII
  12. Part II — A Voyage to Brobdingnag
  13. Chapter I
  14. Chapter II
  15. Chapter III
  16. Chapter IV
  17. Chapter V
  18. Chapter VI
  19. Chapter VII
  20. Chapter VIII
  21. Part III — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan
  22. Chapter I
  23. Chapter II
  24. Chapter III
  25. Chapter IV
  26. Chapter V
  27. Chapter VI
  28. Chapter VII
  29. Chapter VIII
  30. Chapter IX
  31. Chapter X
  32. Chapter XI
  33. Part IV — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
  34. Chapter I
  35. Chapter II
  36. Chapter III
  37. Chapter IV
  38. Chapter V
  39. Chapter VI
  40. Chapter VII
  41. Chapter VIII
  42. Chapter IX
  43. Chapter X
  44. Chapter XI
  45. Chapter XII
  46. Footnotes

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Jonathan Swift

1667–1745 · Enlightenment

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was born in Dublin, educated at Trinity College, and ordained in the Church of Ireland; he was secretary to Sir William Temple in England, a Tory pamphleteer in London, and from 1713 Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. A Tale of a Tub (1704), the Drapier’s Letters (1724), Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) are the best known of his works, most of which he published anonymously.

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