Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels is a fantastic adventure--with unusual people and places. This classic tale is a political satire, as Lemuel Gulliver ventures on his four travels. Here are a few quotes from Gulliver's Travels.

Read the full text of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Swift writes: "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."

There are few great satirists who manage to judge their work so finely that it can be considered both a rip-roaring, fantastical adventure story suitable for children and adults alike, as well as a searing attack on the nature of society.

"In this lecture I wish to focus on two different things by way of an introduction to 'Gulliver's Travels' at the end of our first twosemesters of Liberal Studies.

"Gulliver's function as a measuring stick is metonymic: he comes from the British world--ostensibly the land of the Real--and so the British reader feels he can be used to establish differences between the Real and the fantasy worlds he visits."