Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels is a book for two kinds of readers. Children will delight in it as a charming fantasy; adults will read it as one of the most brilliant satires in the English language. In this account of “romantic” journeys to fictitious islands inhabited by incredible creatures, Swift, behind the ingenuous mask of Lemuel Gulliver, savagely attacked the moral degeneracy and stupidity which he saw in 18th-century society. A caustic commentary on man's perversion of his natural reason, Gulliver's Travels is the finest example of the bitter satirical wit which made Swift one of the most controversial writers of his era.