Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: "Gulliver's Travels" consists of four parts: the of Lilliput (Lilliput, the land of), the of Brobdingnag (Brobdingnag, the land of), the of Laputa (Laputa, the flying island), and the of the Houyhnhnms. The author employs magical imagination, exaggeration, allegorical style, and mercilessly criticizes British society in the first half of the 18th century, especially the corruption, incompetence, boredom, cruelty, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class, delivering a scathing denunciation.