Jonathan Swift 2 hr 52 min 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, here in a school edition of its first two famous voyages. Sharp, savage, endlessly inventive. Read it for the best-loved portions of an immortal classic, biting satire dressed as fantastic adventure.

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

2 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).