Jonathan Swift ~5 hr read

Shipwrecked among the six-inch people of Lilliput, then adrift among the giants of Brobdingnag, a wandering surgeon holds up a mirror to all human folly.

Jonathan Swift's 1726 masterpiece is one of the greatest satires ever written, its fantastic voyages skewering politics, science, and human nature itself. Sharp, savage, endlessly inventive. Read it for a foundational classic of imaginative fiction, as biting and brilliant now as it was three centuries ago.

In its time

Published in 1726, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Milo Winter