Gulliver's Travels, written by Jonathan Swift and published in 1726, follows the extraordinary voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. His journeys take him to Lilliput, where tiny people view him as a giant; Brobdingnag, a land of giants who see him as insignificant; Laputa, a flying island inhabited by impractical scholars; and the country of the Houyhnhnms, ruled by rational horses alongside brutish human-like Yahoos. Through these fantastical adventures, Swift delivers sharp satire on politics, science, and human nature itself. The novel masterfully blends adventure and social criticism, inviting readers to question their own society and humanity's capacity for reason and folly.
