Gullivers Travels
Gullivers Travels بقلم Jonathan Swift ... Shipwrecked on his first voyage, he wakes up in Lilliput-a kingdomof tiny people who are one-twelfth the height of human beings Blown off course by the gales on his second, he is sold to the queenby a giant farmer in Brobdingnag Attacked by pirates on his third, marooned near a desolate island, hediscovers Laputa-the flying island with educated but impracticalpeople And as a captain of a merchantman on his fourth voyage, abandonedon a landing boat by his crew, he meets Houyhnhnms-a race oftalking horses who are the rulers, and Yahoos-the deformedcreatures who are human beings in their base form.Meet Lemuel Gulliver, as he describes his adventurous voyagesacross the islands he lands upon.A universally-read satirical fantasy, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travelscontinues to remain a classic of English literature even more thantwo and a half centuries after it was first published.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 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, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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, M. B. 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"