Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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- Jonathan Swift (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
- Jonathan Swift (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
- Jonathan Swift (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
- Jonathan Swift (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Jonathan Swift (Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish, & Commonwealth Poets)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- First Published: 1726
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1699-1713
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Adventure, Novel
- Subjects: Values, Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Intellectuals, Folkloric or magical people, Mythical animals, Politics, Prisoners, Escapes, Social issues, Religion, Class consciousness, Human race, Eighteenth century, Islands, Kings, queens, or royalty, Rulers, Fantasy, Corruption, Shipwrecks, Adventure, Government, Horses, Satire, Giants, Royal courts or courtiers
- Locales: Europe, England, Mythical lands, United Kingdom
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*Bristol
*Bristol. Port town in southwestern England, where the down-on-his-luck, good-natured Lemuel Gulliver begins his travels. A solid English citizen, Gulliver represents England’s optimistic, rationalistic, and scientific philosophies, which Swift abhorred. A Church of England cleric, Swift maintained that England should look back to the ancient Greeks and Romans and to the Christian Church teachings for guidance and inspiration.
Lilliput
Lilliput (leel-lee-pewt). Island southwest of Sumatra that is the first strange land...
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