Bøker av Jonathan Swift

Para um médico, o capitão Lemuel Gulliver é um grande aventureiro. Neste clássico da literatura, sabemos de quatro de suas principais viagens: a Lilipute, cujos habitantes não chegam a seis polegadas de altura; a Brobdingnag, cujo menor anão do reino tem nove metros de altura; a duas ilhas, uma voadora e outra de feiticeiros, além de uma academia com pesquisadores esquisitos; e, por fim, conhece os houyhnhnms, cavalos civilizados, e os yahoos, espécie de hominídeos selvagens.

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans.

Jonathan Swift's 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment of Ireland's poor and a daringly inventive comic rhapsody.