“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” — Jonathan Swift At once a fantastical travelogue and a searing social commentary, Gulliver’s Travels remains one of the most inventive and cutting works of satire in the English language. Journey alongside Lemuel Gulliver, an unassuming ship’s surgeon, as he finds himself marooned in faraway lands beyond imagination: from the miniature world of the Lilliputians and the giants of Brobdingnag to the floating island of Laputa and the noble, horse-governed land of the Houyhnhnms. With biting wit and surreal adventure, Swift exposes the follies of human pride, the absurdities of politics, and the contradictions of civilization. This modern translation preserves the sharp irony and layered symbolism of Swift’s original prose