Satire

Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift

A ship’s surgeon is shipwrecked among tiny people, then giants, then a floating island of theorists, and each stop turns out to be a pointed satire of the very society he keeps assuring everyone he prefers. Swift built an adventure story specifically to smuggle in an argument he could not have safely made directly. Even children’s editions rarely survive with the satire fully intact.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 7 hours

Where to find it

On the Satire shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #829. In the public domain in the United States.