Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels,a satire by Swift , published 1726 as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ‘By Lemuel Gulliver’.
Swift probably got the idea of a satire in the form of a narrative of travels at the meetings of the Scriblerus Club , and intended it to form part of the ‘Memoirs of Scriblerus’; indeed Scriblerus is described in the ‘Memoirs’ as visiting the same countries as Gulliver. Swift appears to have worked at the book from as early as 1720 .
In the first part Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon on a merchant ship, relates his shipwreck on the island of Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are 6 inches high, everything on the island being in the proportion of an inch to a foot as compared with things as we know them. Owing to this diminutive scale, the pomp of the emperor, the civil feuds of the inhabitants, the war with their neighbours across the channel, are made to look ridiculous. The...
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