Title: Gulliver's Travels
Description: Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*, originally published in 1726 as *Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World*, is a powerful and biting satire that continues to resonate today. 

Frequently reinvented as a children's story, the original work is actually a sophisticated indictment of humanity, the flaws of Enlightenment ideas, and the political corruption that afflicted 18th-century England.
Subjects: Satire, Adventure, Travel, Political allegory, Human nature, Misanthropy, 18th Century
Places: Lilliput, Blefuscu, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, Japan, Houyhnhnmland
People: Lemuel Gulliver, Captain William Prichard, The Emperor of Lilliput, Glumdalclitch
Time periods: 1699–1715, The 18th Century, The Enlightenment