Gulliver's Travels Author:Jonathon Swift One of the most famous works in the English language, this classic has for generations appealed to adults, on the one hand, for its savage satire of mankind; and to children, on the other, for its imaginative fantasy. — While exposing the follies of war, politics, science, philosphy, his native England, and humanity in general, Swift relates the ... more »adventures encountered by a ship's surgeon, Lemuel Gulliver, on four remarkable voyages: to Lilliput, whose inhabitants are six inches tall; to Brobdingnag, whose inhabitants are sixty feet tall; to the flying island of Laputa; and finally to a land ruled by rational horses called "Houyhnhnms," who spoil forever Gulliver's capacity to live among ordinary mortals.« less