Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Name: Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift

Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Language: English
First published: 1726
Reading time: 456 minutes
Chapters: 41 chapters

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Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon who cannot stay at home, is shipwrecked and wakes on a beach tied to the ground by an army of people barely six inches tall.

That is only the first of four voyages, which take him to a land of giants, a flying island of absent-minded scholars and a country ruled by wise and gentle horses. Jonathan Swift published the book in 1726 as if it were a true travel memoir. Children love it as an adventure, while adults find one of the sharpest satires ever written on politics, science and human pride.

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. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his…

The Publisher to the Reader

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Source
Project Gutenberg (eBook #829)
Text version
Project Gutenberg eBook #829 (updated 6 April 2025), downloaded 7 November 2026. The file does not name its source edition; it gives Swift's revised text (an editor's note says one passage follows Dr Hawksworth's edition of 1766). The title page, the editor's bracketed notes, the contents list, the four part headings and the editor's seven footnotes with their markers were not imported. "The Publisher to the Reader", Gulliver's letter to his cousin Sympson and the 39 chapters with Swift's own chapter summaries are unchanged; each chapter is headed with the land of its part, for example "Lilliput, Chapter I".
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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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