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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift, 1726.

Before you read: Swift is rude on purpose about bodies and about powerful people. The book is satire for older children and teens.

Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon, visits countries that are the wrong size or the wrong kind of proud. In Lilliput he is a giant tied down by tiny officials. In Brobdingnag he is a pet in a land of giants and sees human skin far too closely. Later voyages mock science without kindness and a society of talking horses. Swift is not offering a travel guide. He is laughing, bitterly, at governments, war, and vanity.

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Chapters

  1. CHAPTER I.
  2. CHAPTER II.
  3. CHAPTER III.
  4. CHAPTER IV.
  5. CHAPTER V.
  6. CHAPTER VI.
  7. CHAPTER VII.
  8. CHAPTER VIII.
  9. CHAPTER I.
  10. CHAPTER II.
  11. CHAPTER III.
  12. CHAPTER IV.
  13. CHAPTER V.
  14. CHAPTER VI.
  15. CHAPTER VII.
  16. CHAPTER VIII.
  17. CHAPTER I.
  18. CHAPTER II.
  19. CHAPTER III.
  20. CHAPTER IV.
  21. CHAPTER V.
  22. CHAPTER VI.
  23. CHAPTER VII.
  24. CHAPTER VIII.
  25. CHAPTER IX.
  26. CHAPTER X.
  27. CHAPTER XI.
  28. CHAPTER I.
  29. CHAPTER II.
  30. CHAPTER III.
  31. CHAPTER IV.
  32. CHAPTER V.
  33. CHAPTER VI.
  34. CHAPTER VII.
  35. CHAPTER VIII.
  36. CHAPTER IX.
  37. CHAPTER X.
  38. CHAPTER XI.
  39. CHAPTER XII.

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