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  2. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

  3. Jonathan Swift - Wikipedia

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    A. L. Rowse wrote a biography of Swift, [59] essays on his works, [60] [61] and edited the Pan Books edition of Gulliver's Travels. [62] Literary scholar Frank Stier Goodwin wrote a full biography of Swift: Jonathan Swift – Giant in Chains, issued by Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York (1940, 450pp, with Bibliography).

  4. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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    Swift gives the location of Lilliput and Blefuscu in Part I of Gulliver's Travels, both in the text and with a map, though neither correspond to real-world geography, even as it was known in Swift's time. The text states that Gulliver's ship (the Antelope) was bound for the East Indies when it was caught in "a violent storm to the northwest of ...

  5. Lemuel Gulliver - Wikipedia

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    Captain Gulliver, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s). Lemuel Gulliver meets the King of Brobdingnag (1803), Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lemuel Gulliver (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ l ɪ v ər /) is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.

  6. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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    Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either / ˈ h uː ɪ n əm / or / ˈ hw ɪ n əm /. [1] Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses.

  7. Benjamin Motte - Wikipedia

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    Although Motte is most known for his production of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, he produced other great works.Many of these works were published on his own, but he did work with many other printers including Samuel Ballard, Charles Bathurst, Bernard Lintot, William Mears, James Round, George Strahan, and Jacob Tonson.

  8. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

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    The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver's Travels [2] and has since entered the English language more broadly. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," [2] resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver.

  9. Struldbrugg - Wikipedia

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    Swift's work depicts the evil of physical immortality without eternal youth. They are easily recognized by a red dot above their left eyebrow, at birth, which changes to black in old age. They are normal human beings until they reach the age of eighty, at which time they become dejected.