Gulliver's Travels

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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726 was universally read from the cabinet council to the nursery. It was, however, the children who laid claim to the book. In Part One Lemuel Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people. After escaping from the land of Lilliput and returning to England, Gulliver sets sail again. This time his ship is blown off course by storms and while a party of sailors goes ashore in search of fresh water, our hero is abandoned and again captured...this time by a race of giants! We now know that millions of children and adults have read and been thrilled by the perils and adventures of Gulliver's Travels. Plunge into one of the most exciting adventure stories ever written...Gulliver's Travels by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman, Jonathan Swift.

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".