Jonathan Swift - The Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver. Gift book bound in leather

Gulliver's Travels is the most significant work of Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish satirist, publicist, poet and public figure. Similar at first glance to a funny fairy tale, "Gulliver's Travels" is an allegory, a parable, the author of which is a ruthless and brilliant master of words, ridiculing human and social vices.

Swift wrote his "Gulliver" as a political pamphlet and a social satire on the mores of his time. And who now, except for professional historians, remembers in detail the realities of life in England at the beginning of the XVIII century? Perhaps the fact is that Swift was one of the first European writers to create a full-fledged fantasy world on paper. No one believes in the land of midgets or giants, but the completeness and detail of their description in Swift is fascinating. His style is simple. Swift wrote for the common people. However, this simplicity was not easy for him - he polished literally every phrase of his "Gulliver". The main component of success is that, by castigating modern mores, Swift, with his skeptical view of humanity as a whole, was able to touch on eternal topics (military conflicts, political fuss, corrupt judges, the dictate of those in power and subservience to them)