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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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The narrator recounts four voyages to remote lands: a kingdom of tiny inhabitants, a nation of giants, a floating island and its surrounding territories, and a country ruled by intelligent horses alongside degraded humanlike creatures. Each voyage juxtaposes vivid travel description with satirical examinations of politics, science, culture, and morality, progressively intensifying the narrator’s disillusionment with human institutions. The work alternates adventurous storytelling and philosophical reflection, using exaggerated contrasts to probe reason, vice, and the limits of human pride.

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Title: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Author: Jonathan Swift

Release date: February 1, 1997 [eBook #829]
Most recently updated: April 6, 2025

Language: English

Credits: David Price

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GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
into several
REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

BY JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.,
dean of st. patrick’s, dublin.

[First published in 1726–7.]


Contents

THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.
A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON.
PART I. A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.
PART II. A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG.
PART III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, GLUBBDUBDRIB, LUGGNAGG AND JAPAN.
PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS.