Description: Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by six-inch people whose height only emphasizes the pettiness of their quarrels. His subsequent encounters-with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos-give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behavior. With a text based on the first edition of 1726, this volume includes full explanatory notes, bibliography, and illustrations. A new introduction discusses the book's contemporary reception, as well as the political and artistic aspects of the work. Swift claimed he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than to divert it," but it remains literature's most vital satire-supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.

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