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Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic – if rather stolid – Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best-seller when it was first published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swift’s day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece, whose powerful satire continues to strike home.
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (Unabridged)
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A Letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson
I find likewise that your printer has been so careless…
Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput - Chapter 1
The declivity was so small that I walked near a mile…
But I should have mentioned, that before the principal…
It seems that, upon the first moment I was discovered…
Chapter 2
Towards night, I got with some difficulty into my house…
He desired I would not take it ill, if he gave orders…
When this inventory was read over to the emperor…
Chapter 3
When I had finished my work, I desired…
But because the reader may be curious to have some idea…
Chapter 4
The emperor's palace is in the centre of the city…
He began with compliments on my liberty…
Chapter 5
The emperor and his whole court stood on the shore…
It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke…
Chapter 6
In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard…
In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality…
I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals…
Chapter 7
In the several debates upon this impeachment…
'In three days, your friend the secretary…'
Chapter 8
These considerations moved me to hasten my departure…
Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag - Chapter 1
I was endeavouring to find some gap in the hedge…
They all sat down in a circle about me…
When dinner was almost done, the nurse came…
Chapter 2
I was placed upon a table in the largest room…
Chapter 3
His majesty sent for three great scholars…
It is the custom that every Wednesday…
Nothing angered and mortified me so much…
Chapter 4
Besides the large box in which I was usually carried…
Chapter 5
I cannot tell whether I were more pleased…
The queen, who often used to hear me talk of my sea-voyages…
But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom…
Chapter 6
The king, who, as I before observed…
When I had put an end to these long discourses…
He fell next upon the management of our treasury…
Chapter 7
A strange effect of narrow principles and views!
Their style is clear, masculine, and smooth…
Chapter 8
How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glumdalclitch…
I slept some hours, but perpetually disturbed with dreams…
The captain was very well satisfied with this…
Part 3: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan - Chapter 1
The next day I sailed to another island…
Chapter 2
After dinner my company withdrew…
Most of them, and especially those who deal…
Chapter 3
But it must be observed, that this island cannot move…
Chapter 4
During our journey he made me observe the several methods…
Chapter 5
I was complaining of a small fit of the colic…
Six hours a day the young students were employed…
Chapter 6
This project could not be of any great expense…
To keep senators in the interest of the crown…
Chapter 7
After this manner we continued in the island for ten days…
Chapter 8
Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance…
Chapter 9
The despatch came from court about the time we expected.
Chapter 10
'I would never marry after threescore…'
After this preface, he gave me a particular account…
Chapter 11
Part 4: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms - Chapter 1
In this desolate condition I advanced forward…
While he and I were thus employed, another horse came up…
Chapter 2
The great difficulty that seemed to stick with the two horses…
Chapter 3
I had hitherto concealed the secret of my dress…
Chapter 4
It put me to the pains of many circumlocutions…
Chapter 5
'There is likewise a kind of beggarly princes in Europe…'
I assured his honour, 'that the law was a science…'
Chapter 6
I was going on to tell him another sort of people…
I told him, 'that a first or chief minister of state…'
Chapter 7
'That our institutions of government and law…'
My master further assured me, which I also observed…
I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation…
Chapter 8
As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature…
Chapter 9
The Houyhnhnms have no letters, and consequently…
Chapter 10
I freely confess, that all the little knowledge…
I was struck with the utmost grief and despair…
Chapter 11
The ship came within half a league of this creek…
Our voyage passed without any considerable accident…
Chapter 12
I am not a little pleased that this work…
But as those countries which I have described do not appear…
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