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Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

The ship’s surgeon Gulliver sets out on a voyage to unknown lands.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Advanced2,933 characters · ≈ 4 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I…

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About the book

Gulliver's Travels is a 1726 satirical prose novel by Jonathan Swift, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. It follows Lemuel Gulliver, an adventurous Englishman who sails to strange distant lands—Lilliput with its tiny people and petty politics, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms—using these journeys to satirise human nature and the flaws of various civilisations. It is one of the most famous classics of English and world literature.

About the author

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He is best known as the author of the satirical novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput, and also wrote works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and A Modest Proposal (1729).

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