Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Gulliver's Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag
Gulliver's Voyages were written a long time ago, in the reign of George I, by a very witty Irishman named Jonathan Swift, often called Dean Swift, because he was Dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin, for a great part of his life. Most of his writings are of the kind known as "satire"; that is to say, he wrote in mockery of men and women and their habits, whenever he thought them wrong or foolish, exposing their errors and taunting them with their follies. As he was naturally inclined to bitterness, he often hurt people's feelings, for nobody likes to be told of his faults with a sneer; but he was not always so harsh and savage, and, of all that he wrote, the most popular tales to-day are "Gulliver's Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag."
Gulliver - Captain Lemuel Gulliver is his full name - is supposed to have been a typical Englishman, living in the reign Queen Anne. After making several voyages as a ship's doctor, he is wrecked and thrown ashore, as the only survivor, on a strange coast. Here he finds a race of tiny people - Lilliputians, or people of Lilliput - and undergoes a number of adventures in their country, at last escaping and coming safely home to England.
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