《格列佛游記（英文版）》是一本優(yōu)秀的政治諷刺小說，一卷講述格列佛在小人國的奇遇，第二卷描述格列佛遭遇海難后游歷大人國；第三卷講述在航海途中遭到海盜襲擊，在小島上的經(jīng)歷，第四卷是在智馬國的經(jīng)歷。其實，所謂小人國、大人國、智馬國，無非是當(dāng)年英國社會現(xiàn)實的反映。作者斯威夫特一生既傲過牧師，又曾積極投身政治活動。寫過大量表達(dá)政治主張的小冊子。因而，這部游記筆鋒犀利，想象豐富，對當(dāng)時議會政治及反動的宗教勢力都有尖銳盼諷刺。高爾基就曾稱斯威夫特為“偉大文學(xué)的創(chuàng)造者之一”。
斯威夫特在英國文學(xué)乃至世界文學(xué)中都產(chǎn)生了極為深遠(yuǎn)的影響，20世紀(jì)英國著名諷刺作家威爾斯自稱一生讀這《格列佛游記（英文版）》不下六次，因而才寫出著名政治預(yù)言小說《1984》和《動物莊園》。
Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726;and although it was by nomeans intended for them the book was soon appropriated by thechildren who have ever since continued to regard it as one of themost delightful of their story books.They cannot comprehend theoccasion which provoked the book nor appreciate the satire whichunderlies the narrative but they delight in the wonderful adventuresand wander full of open-eyed astonishment into the new worldsthrough which the vivid and logically accurate imagination of theauthor so personally conducts them.And therer is ameaning and amoral in the stories of the Voyages to Lilliputand Brobdingnag which is entirely apart fromthe political satire they are intended to convey a meaning and a moral which the youngest childwho can read it will not fail to seize and upon which it is scarcely necessary for the teacher to comment.
Gulliver's Travels（1726 amended 1735）is a novelby Jonathan Swift that is both a satire onhuman nature and a parody of the“travellers'tales”literary sub-genre.It is Swift's bestknown full-length work and a classic ofEnglish literature
The book became tremendously popular assoon as it was published.（ohn Gay said in a1726 letter to Swift that“it is universally readfrom the cabinet council to the nursery”）;sincethen it has never been out of print.
Jonathan Swift（1667——1745）was an Anglo-Irish satirist，essayiSt，political pamphleteer（first for Whigs then for the Tories），poet and cleric who became Dean of St.Patrick’s，Dublin.He is remembered for works such as Glliver's Travels，A Modest Proposal，A yournal to Stella，Drapkr'sLetters，The Battle ofthe Books，An Argument Against AbolishingChristianity，andA Tak ofa Tub.Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language，and is lesswell known for his poetry.
Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms-such as Lemuel Gulliver,Isaac Bickerstaff,M.B.Drapier—or anonymously He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire：the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER
PART ONE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
PART TWO
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
PART THREE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
PART FOUR
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
The author gives some account of himself and family.His first inducements to travel He is shipwrecked,andswims for his life,gets safe on shore in the country ofLilliput,is made a prisoner,and carried up the country.Y FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire;I was the third of five sons.He sent me toEmanuel College in Cambridge at fourteenyears old,where I resided three years,and applied myselfclose to my studies;but the charge of maintaining mealthough I had a very scanty allowance,being too great for anarrow fortune,I was bound apprentice to Mr.James Bates,an eminent surgeon in London,with whom I continuedfour years My father now and then sending me small sumsof money,I laid them out in learning navigation,and otherparts of the mathematics,useful to those who intend totravel,as I always believed it would be some time or othermy fortune to do.When I left Mr.Bates,I went down to myfather;where,by the assistance of him and my uncle John,and some other relations,I got forty pounds,and a promiseof thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden:there Istudied physic two years and seven months,knowing itwould be useful in long voyages.Soon after my return from Leyden,I was recommendedby my good master Mr.Bates,to be surgeon to the Swallow,Captain Abraham Pannel commander;with whom Icontinued three years and a half.
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