Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a 1726 satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, one of the most famous classics of English and world literature. The novel follows Lemuel Gulliver, an adventurous Englishman who travels to a series of strange lands, including Lilliput, where he encounters tiny people engaged in petty political disputes, Brobdingnag, where he is a small man among giants who criticise European customs, Laputa, home to impractical intellectuals disconnected from reality, and the land of the Houyhnhnms, where rational horses live alongside savage human-like Yahoos. Through these journeys the novel satirises human nature, the flaws of various civilisations and the imaginary travellers'-tales literary subgenre. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Although the novel is popularly regarded as children's literature, Swift wrote it as a political satire.
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Gulliver's Travels...is a 1726 satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift.
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Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. It is one of the most famous classics of both English and world literature, and popularised the fictional island of Lilliput.
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Gulliver's Travels...is a 1726 satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift.
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Satire, fantasy, Science fiction, traveller's tale
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Satire, fantasy, Science fiction, traveller's tale
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Satire, fantasy, Science fiction, traveller's tale
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