Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift's satirical adventure story Gulliver's Travels recounts the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon who winds up having various encounters in unknown lands with people and animals of all types and sizes. From the miniature Lilliputians, hell-bent on world domination, to the gigantic Brobdingnagians whose king rules with reason, Gulliver's Travels is a book that has delighted countless generations of children. Even so the book works on a much deeper level for adults, including its harsh satire of the human race and human foibles.

The adventure of Lemuel Gulliver are entertaining for both children and adults. For adults, however, Swift's satire of the human race and its foibles provides a deeper source of pleasure that inspires critical thinking. The Yahoos are for all intents and purposes Swift's satire of the human race. In Gulliver's Travels the Houyhnhnms are horse-like creatures with great capacity for learning and reason, whi

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