کتاب Gullivers Travels and Other Writings Original It is universally read from the cabinet council to the nursery remarked Alexander Pope when Gullivers Travels was published in 1726 One of the unique books of world literature Swifts masterful satire describes the astonishing voyages of one Lemuel Gulliver a ships surgeon to surreal kingdoms inhabited by miniature people and giants quack philosophers and scientists horses endowed with reason and men who behave like beasts Written with great wit and invention Gullivers Travels is a savage parody on man and his institutions that has captivated readers for nearly three centuries   As bestselling author and critic Allan Bloom observed Gullivers Travels is an amazing rhetorical achievement Swift had not only the judgment with which to arrive at a reasoned view of the world but the fancy by means of which he could recreate that world in a form which teaches where argument fails and which satisfies all while misleading none  This representative collection of Swifts major writings includes the complete Gullivers Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub The Battle of the Books A Modest Proposal An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity The Bickerstaff Papers and many more of his brilliantly satirical works Here too are selections from Swifts poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella Swifts savage ridicule corrosive wit and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection