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A ship's surgeon washes up among people six inches high, then among giants, then on a floating island of theorists, and finally among horses who find humans disgusting. Swift published it anonymously through an intermediary because parts of it were actionable, and the publisher softened passages without asking. It was read as a children's book almost at once, which was not the plan. Ninety-nine plates after Gainsborough and Wright of Derby bring the century's portraits, experiments and drawing rooms into a book about looking closely at strange societies.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- The Publisher to the Reader
- A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson. Written in the Year 1727.
- Chapter I. The author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, andā¦
- Chapter II. The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinementā¦
- Chapter III. The author diverts the emperor, and his nobility of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner. The diversionsā¦
- Chapter IV. Mildendo, the metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with the emperorās palace. A conversation betweenā¦
- Chapter V. The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion. A high title of honor is conferred uponā¦
- Chapter VI. Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their childrenā¦
- Chapter VII. The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. Hisā¦
- Chapter VIII. The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some difficulties, returnsā¦
- Chapter I. A great storm described; the long boat sent to fetch water; the author goes with it to discover the countryā¦
- Chapter II. A description of the farmerās daughter. The author carried to a market-town, and then to the metropolisā¦
- Chapter III. The author sent for to court. The queen buys him of his master the farmer, and presents him to the kingā¦
- Chapter IV. The country described. A proposal for correcting modern maps. The kingās palace; and some account of theā¦
- Chapter V. Several adventures that happened to the author. The execution of a criminal. The author shows his skill inā¦
- Chapter VI. Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen. He shows his skill in music. The kingā¦
- Chapter VII. The authorās love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejectedā¦
- Chapter VIII. The king and queen make a progress to the frontiers. The author attends them. The manner in which heā¦
- Chapter I. The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pirates. The malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at anā¦
- Chapter II. The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. An account of their learning. Of the king and hisā¦
- Chapter III. A phenomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy. The Laputiansā great improvements in the latterā¦
- Chapter IV. The author leaves Laputa; is conveyed to Balnibarbi; arrives at the metropolis. A description of theā¦
- Chapter V. The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado. The academy largely described. The arts wherein theā¦
- Chapter VI. A further account of the academy. The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received.
- Chapter VII. The author leaves Lagado: arrives at Maldonada. No ship ready. He takes a short voyage to Glubbdubdribā¦
- Chapter VIII. A further account of Glubbdubdrib. Ancient and modern history corrected.
- Chapter IX. The author returns to Maldonada. Sails to the kingdom of Luggnagg. The author confined. He is sent for toā¦
- Chapter X. The Luggnaggians commended. A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between theā¦
- Chapter XI. The author leaves Luggnagg, and sails to Japan. From thence he returns in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam, andā¦
- Chapter I. The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to hisā¦
- Chapter II. The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house. The house described. The authorās reception. The food ofā¦
- Chapter III. The author studies to learn the language. The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. The languageā¦
- Chapter IV. The Houyhnhnmsā notion of truth and falsehood. The authorās discourse disapproved by his master. The authorā¦
- Chapter V. The author at his masterās command, informs him of the state of England. The causes of war among the princesā¦
- Chapter VI. A continuation of the state of England under Queen Anne. The character of a first minister of state inā¦
- Chapter VII. The authorās great love of his native country. His masterās observations upon the constitution andā¦
- Chapter VIII. The author relates several particulars of the Yahoos. The great virtues of the Houyhnhnms. Theā¦
- Chapter IX. A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined. The learning of theā¦
- Chapter X. The authorās economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms. His great improvement in virtue by conversingā¦
- Chapter XI. The authorās dangerous voyage. He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there. Is wounded with an arrowā¦
- Chapter XII. The authorās veracity. His design in publishing this work. His censure of those travelers who swerve fromā¦
- About the Author
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