Gulliver's Travels: Illustrated — Arthur Rackham; Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels is the most famous fictional satire by Jonathan Swift. Lemuel Gulliver, the main character, tells about his his journey to four countries: Lilliput, a land of little people, Brobdingnag, a land of big people, Laputa, a land of intelligent but useless people, and Houyhnhnm, a land of horses. The novel is a satire on human nature.
“Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant.”

This edition of “Gulliver's Travels” includes:
• Notes
• 12 illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1901)
• Jonathan Swift's satirical essay A Modest Proposal (1729)
• An extract from Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets (1901)
• A chronology of Jonathan Swift.