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Enlightenment · Satirical fiction
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift. Fantastic voyages become savage satire of political institutions, scientific pretension, and human pride.
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- Date
- 1726
- Origin
- Ireland / Britain
- Genre
- Satirical fiction
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
Fantastic voyages become savage satire of political institutions, scientific pretension, and human pride.
This work is included on the basis of great books / bloom / harvard. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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