Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
 
 
 
 
This masterpiece tells the incredible tale of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. He is shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, where the residents are only six inches high, then journeys takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, populated by giants, a floating island in the sky, and a land where horses have intelligence and man lives as a beast. His adventures, while read by children as an adventure story, are a devastating satire of society and human foibles.  Part travelogue, part realism, part symbolism, Gulliver's Travels remains a treasured classic of literature.
 

Helpful links and study aids for Gulliver's Travels:
 

http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/index.html

This site contains a timeline of Swift's life, the text of Gulliver's Travels, and vocabulary from the book.

http://landow.stg.brown.edu/c32/swift/swiftov.html

This site is maintained by Brown University and contains information about Jonathan Swift, literary relations, visual arts, history, politics, religion, science, and imagery.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/lit.html

This site, maintained by Rutgers University, is about the Restoration and Englightment period (18th Century England).  There are numerous links to historical and literary works.
 
 

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