Jonathan Swift

"The originality, concentrated power and "fierce indignation" of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift (1667 -- 1745) a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English language. Gulliver's Travels is, of course, his world-renowned masterpiece in the genre; however, Swift wrote other, shorter works that also offer excellent evidence of his inspired lampoonery. Perhaps the most famous of these is "A Modest Proposal," in which he straight-facedly...

An abridged version of the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.

"Gulliver's Travels is the most significant work of Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish satirist, publicist, poet and public figure. At first glance, "Gulliver's Travels" is an allegory, a parable, the author who is a ruthless and brilliant master of words, ridiculing human and social vices. Masterfully using all shades of humor, from good-natured, gentle irony to angry sarcasms and venomous ridicule, Swift has created one of the greatest satirical books...

Swift uses a blend of fantasy and realism to describe the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.