Gulliver's Travels follows ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver through voyages to societies that make human customs look suddenly ridiculous. Jonathan Swift uses Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms to turn adventure fiction into a sharp satire of politics, pride, war, learning, colonial confidence, and the comforting stories people tell about their own reasonableness.
Readers expecting only a children's fantasy will find a darker and more intellectually biting work beneath the famous images. Gulliver's Travels is a strong choice for anyone interested in comic invention with philosophical force, because each strange country exposes a different weakness in ordinary civilization and leaves the traveler less certain of himself, his species, and his assumptions about pride.
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