Free eBook

Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift

2019-11-08 04:03:38

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jona ... Read more
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travelers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature. The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." Less

Book Details

File size320.706 KB
Print pages306
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-11-02
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780141439495
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub, A...

Reviews

Sign in to write a review

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free