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.

FOOTNOTES:

[301] A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a half.

[330] An act of parliament has been since passed by which some breaches of trust have been made capital.

[454a] Britannia.—Sir W. Scott.

[454b] London.—Sir W. Scott.

[455] This is the revised text adopted by Dr. Hawksworth (1766). The above paragraph in the original editions (1726) takes another form, commencing:—“I told him that should I happen to live in a kingdom where lots were in vogue,” &c. The names Tribnia and Langden are not mentioned, and the “close stool” and its signification do not occur.

[514] This paragraph is not in the original editions.

[546] The original editions and Hawksworth’s have Rotherhith here, though earlier in the work, Redriff is said to have been Gulliver’s home in England.