Gulliver's Travels - Classics Club Author:Jonathan Swift Come along now on the strangest, most fascinating adventures in all literature... Hoist the sail of your imagination and cross uncharted seas to the tiny people's kingdom of Lilliput... to the land of the Brobdingnag Giants... to the flying island of the moonstruck Laputan philosophers... to the country of the monstrous Yahoos and noble Houyhnhm... more »n Horses... Come along now with Jonathan Swift on Gulliver's Travels. The front cover of the manuscript dropped at a publisher's door one dark October night in 1726 read simply: "travels into Several remote Nations of the World" by "Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships." But to a fascinated world that has idolized its charming narrative and scathing satire for well over 200 years, it is known by a title and author that loom as large as literature itself -- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift!« less