Gulliver’s Travels

Jul 16, 2026

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Gulliver’s Travels is a satirical narrative about Captain Lemuel Gulliver’s voyages to fantastical remote nations. The text includes the publisher’s introduction, a letter from Gulliver to his cousin, and an outline of the four-part journey: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, multiple imaginary countries, and the land of the Houyhnhnms, using exploration to question society, politics, and human nature.

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CategoryStory & Novel

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Pages273

Reading Time7 h 0 min

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This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at [www.gutenberg.org. If you are not](www.gutenberg.org. If you are not) located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Author: Jonathan Swift Release date: February 1, 1997 [eBook \#829] Most recently updated: September 6, 2023 Language: English Credits: David Price *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GULLIVER'S TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD *** 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 COUSINSYMPSON. 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. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. [As given in the original edition.] The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother ’s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours. Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers. Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit. I have carefully perused them three times. The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travellers, is a little too circumstantial. There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it. By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author ’s permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party. This volume would have been at least twice as

Jul 16, 2026

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