Gulliver's Travels

<p><em>Gulliver's Travels</em> by Jonathan Swift is a satirical adventure novel that follows Lemuel Gulliver a ship's surgeon on four fantastical voyages.</p><ul><li><ul><li>In <strong>Lilliput</strong> he encounters tiny people whose petty politics mirror human folly.</li><li>In <strong>Brobdingnag</strong> a land of giants Gulliver himself is small and comes under scrutiny exposing the flaws of European society.</li><li>In <strong>Laputa and other islands</strong> he meets impractical scientists and philosophers obsessed with abstract theories.</li><li>Finally in the land of the <strong>Houyhnhnms</strong> rational horses rule while the brutish human-like Yahoos serve them forcing Gulliver to confront the darker side of humanity.</li></ul></li></ul><p>Through satire Swift critiques pride corruption and the flaws of human nature making the novel both a sharp political commentary and a timeless work of imaginative literature.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>