Gulliver’s Travels

“It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery,” remarked Alexander Pope when Gulliver’s Travels was published in 1726.

As bestselling author and critic Allan Bloom observed: “Gulliver’s 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 re-create that world in a form which teaches where argument fails and which satisfies all while misleading none.”