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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. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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   Herman Moll: A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691, London 1697.Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll [citation needed] and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven.

4. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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   Book IV of Gulliver's Travels is the keystone, in some ways, of the entire work, [citation needed] and critics have traditionally answered the question whether Gulliver is insane (and thus just another victim of Swift's satire) by questioning whether or not the Houyhnhnms are truly admirable.

5. Laputa - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver discovers Laputa, the flying island (illustration by J. J. Grandville) The Queen of Laputa, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s). Laputa / l ə ˈ p uː t ə / is a flying island described in the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. [1]

6. Jonathan Swift - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver's Travels, a large portion of which Swift wrote at Woodbrook House in County Laois, was published in 1726. It is regarded as his masterpiece. As with his other writings, the Travels was published under a pseudonym, the fictional Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and later a sea captain. Some of the correspondence between printer Benj ...

7. Benjamin Motte - Wikipedia

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   Benjamin Motte (/ m ɒ t /; November 1693 – 12 March 1738 [1]) was a London publisher and son of Benjamin Motte, Sr. Motte published many works and is well known for his publishing of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. [2]

8. Lagado - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver in the academy of Lagado, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s). Lagado is poverty stricken like the rest of the nation. The king had invested a great fortune on building an Academy of Projectors in Lagado so that it shall contribute to the nation's development through research, but so far the Academy has yielded no result.

9. Luggnagg - Wikipedia

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   "The Allegory of Luggnagg and the Struldbruggs in 'Gulliver's Travels'" by Robert P. Fitzgerald, Studies in Philology, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Jul., 1968), pp. 657-676 "Licking the Dust in Luggnagg: Swift’s Reflections on the Legacy of King William’s Conquest of Ireland" by Anne Barbeau Gardiner, Swift Studies 8 (1993): 35-44