Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 1726 CE · Novel · English · Enlightenment

A ship's surgeon is cast up in turn among people six inches high, among giants, among philosophers on a flying island, and among horses who reason better than men. He reports each society deadpan, taking its arrangements more seriously than those of his own country. Four voyages to absurd nations, each a mirror held up to the folly of the human animal.

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Lineage

• responds to ↑ Robinson Crusoe
  Daniel Defoe · 1719 CE · Novel
• ↓ Candide
  Voltaire · 1759 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Nineteen Eighty-Four
  George Orwell · 1949 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Animal Farm
  George Orwell · 1945 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Micromégas
  Voltaire · 1752 CE · Short Story — influenced by this

Attributes

Closest analogues

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  Peter Carey · 1974 CE · Short Story

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  49% · 11 shared
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• Don Juan
  Lord Byron · 1819 CE · Poem

  49% · 10 shared
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• Don Quixote
  Cervantes · 1605 CE · Novel

  44% · 10 shared
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• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Mark Twain · 1884 CE · Novel

  44% · 10 shared
  NovelSatireAdventureIndividual vs SocietyEverymanVoyage and ReturnEpisodicThe Journeyvs SocietySatirical
• Ferdydurke
  Witold Gombrowicz · 1937 CE · Novel

  44% · 10 shared
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