Introduction Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels stands as a towering achievement in English literature, uniquely blending a fanciful narrative with scathing political and social satire. Published anonymously in 1726, the work transcends mere entertainment to question the very foundations of human nature, knowledge, and society. While on the surface it recounts the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to bizarre lands inhabited by miniature people, giants, and rational horses, beneath lies a multilayered critique of the follies, vices, and contradictions of 18th-century Europe—many...