Gulliver's Travels

Description:

Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*, originally published in 1726 as *Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World*, is a powerful and biting satire that continues to resonate today. Frequently reinvented as a children's story, the original work is actually a sophisticated indictment of humanity, the flaws of Enlightenment ideas, and the political corruption that afflicted 18th-century England.

subjects: Satire,  Adventure,  Travel,  Political allegory,  Human nature,  Misanthropy,  18th Century

People: Lemuel Gulliver,  Captain William Prichard,  The Emperor of Lilliput,  Glumdalclitch

Places: Lilliput,  Blefuscu,  Brobdingnag,  Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnagg,  Glubbdubdrib,  Japan,  Houyhnhnmland

Times: 1699–1715,  The 18th Century,  The Enlightenment