Eccentric as always, Jonathan Swift arranged to have manuscript of Gulliver's Travels delivered anonymousIy to the publisher at night; dropped on the doorstep from the window of a hackney coach. This cloak-and-dagger precaution indicates the effect he expected the book to have on the public. Written "to vex the world rather than divert it," Gulliver's Travels was the work that would establish Swift as the world's master satirist.

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When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible and unbelievable misadventures awaiting him. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Lilliput--where the people are only six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giants called Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! He travels to Laputa, a city that floats in the sky, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. His final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos--a brutish race of subhumans--and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms.

A Voyage to LILLIPUT

A Voyage to BROBDINGNAG

A Voyage to LAPUTA,BALNIBARBI,LUGGNAGG,GLUBBDUBDRIB,AND JAPAN

A Voyage to the Country of the HOUYHNHNMS