by Jonathan Swift · 1726
Fantasy · Science Fiction · Classics
Lemuel Gulliver sets sail on a series of extraordinary voyages, encountering tiny Lilliputians, towering giants, and strange floating islands. His fantastical journeys offer a sharp and witty look at human nature and society.
A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG
D.C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
1900
PREFACE.
And lo! the book, from all its end beguiled, A harmless wonder to some happy child.
LORD LYTTON.
Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726; and, although it was by no means intended for them, the book was soon appropriated by the children, who have ever since continued to regard it as one of the most delightful of their story books. They cannot comprehend the occasion which provoked the book nor appreciate the satire which underlies the narrative, but they delight in the wonderful adventures, and wander full of open-eyed astonishment into the new worlds through which the vivid and logically accurate imagination of the author so personally conducts them. And there is a meaning and a moral in the stories of the Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag which is entirely apart from the political satire they are intended to convey, a meaning and a moral which the youngest child who can read it will not fail to seize, and upon which it is scarcely necessary for the teacher to comment.
