Part I - A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Articles of Impeachment against Quinbus Flestrin (the Man-Mountain)
Chapter VIII
Part II - A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Part III - A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Part IV - A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Endnotes
Inspired by Gulliver’s Travels
Comments Questions
For Further Reading
From the Pages of Gulliver’s Travels
I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back. (page 28)
All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end: and which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion, to be left to every man’s conscience, or at least in the power of the chief magistrate to determine. (pages 56-57)
I resolved never more to put any confidence in princes or ministers, where I could possibly avoid it. (page 81)
I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. (page 137)
A soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species; who have never offended him, as possibly he can.
(page 247)
Some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader. I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days; but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to contradict many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it hath given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused.
(pages 289-290)
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. An English civil servant and attorney, Jonathan the elder died half a year before his son’s birth, leaving his wife, Abigail, penniless. An uncle took stewardship of the boy and educated him in Ireland’s finest school, which he detested because of its corporal punishment and tedious drilling in Latin grammar. In 1682 Jonathan enrolled in Trinity College, Dublin. Academia did not agree with the fiery, independent young man; his record was undistinguished, and he barely earned a bachelor’s degree.
Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Swift went to England, where he became a secretary to the statesman Sir William Temple at Moor Park, Surrey. A better introduction to politics would have been hard to imagine; the powerful Temple had negotiated the Triple Alliance that brought together Britain, Sweden, and Holland, and brokered the marriage of William and Mary. At Moor Park, Swift tutored a servant’s child, Esther “Stella” Johnson, who would become his great love. Around this time Swift began to show symptoms of Ménière’s disease, which manifested itself in tinnitus, nausea, and vertigo. Despite poor health, for several years Swift traveled between England and Ireland; he worked on and off for Temple, was ordained a priest in the Church of Ireland, and wrote