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"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."
--- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts.
By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several
Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended
1735), is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift,
that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the
"travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known
full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay
wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from
the cabinet council to the nursery." Since then, it has never been
out of print.
Cavehill in Belfast is thought to be the inspiration for the
novel. Swift imagined that the mountain resembled the shape of a
sleeping giant safeguarding the city.
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