Gulliver's Travels
First published 1726 · English · 133 pages
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Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel in four parts, told by Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon who is repeatedly cast away in strange lands. He meets tiny people, giants, a flying island of scholars and a race of wise horses, among other peoples. Each voyage turns a mirror on human society, politics, science and vanity, often by changing Gulliver's size or point of view. Written in the plain voice of a travel narrative, it is both a funny adventure and a bitter study of human nature. It remains one of the most widely read and adapted works in English.
Quotes
He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man’s goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning.