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Answer 1

"When bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived a human not six inches high!"

When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible and unbelievable misadventures awaiting him. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Lilliput-where the people are only six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giants called Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! He travels to Laputa, a city that floats in the sky, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. His final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos-a brutish race of subhumans-and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms.
First published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels remains one of the most exciting fantasy adventures ever written.

Answer 2

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Jonathan
Swift,
son
of
the
English
lawyer
Jonathan
Swift
the
elder,
was
born
in
Dublin,
Ireland,
on
November
30,
1667.
He
grew
up
there
in
the
care
of
his
uncle
before
attending
Trinity
College
at
the
age
of
fourteen,
where
he
stayed
for
seven
years,
graduating
in
1688.
In
that
year,
he
became
the
secretary
of
Sir
William
Temple,
an
English
politician
and
member
of
the
Whig
party.
In
1694,
he
took
religious
orders
in
the
Church
of
Ireland
and
then
spent
a
year
as
a
country
parson.
He
then
spent
further
time
in
the
service
of
Temple
before
returning
to
Ireland
to
become
the
chaplain
of
the
earl
of
Berkeley.
Meanwhile,
he
had
begun
to
write
satires
on
the
political
and
religious
corruption
surrounding
him,
working
on
A
Tale
of
a
Tub,
which
supports
the
position
of
the
Anglican
Church
against
its
critics
on
the
left
and
the
right,
and
The
Battle
of
the
Books,
which
argues
for
the
supremacy
of
the
classics
against
modern
thought
and
literature.
He
also
wrote
a
number
of
political
pamphlets
in
favor
of
the
Whig
party.
In
1709
he
went
to
London
to
campaign
for
the
Irish
church
but
was
unsuccessful.
After
some
conflicts
with
the
Whig
party,
mostly
because
of
Swift’s
strong
allegiance
to
the
church,
he
became
a
member
of
the
more
conservative
Tory
party
in
1710.
Unfortunately
for
Swift,
the
Tory
government
fell
out
of
power
in
1714
and
Swift,
despite
his
fame
for
his
writings,
fell
out
of
favor.
Swift,
who
had
been
hoping
to
be
assigned
a
position
in
the
Church
of
England,
instead
returned
to
Dublin,
where
he
became
the
dean
of
St.
Patrick’s.
During
his
brief
time
in
England,
Swift
had
become
friends
with
writers
such
as
Alexander
Pope,
and
during
a
meeting
of
their
literary
club,
the
Martinus
Scriblerus
Club,
they
decided
to
write
satires
of
modern
learning.
The
third
voyage
of
Gulliver’s
Travels
is
assembled
from
the
work
Swift
did
during
this
time.
However,
the
final
work
was
not
completed
until
1726,
and
the
narrative
of
the
third
voyage
was
actually
the
last
one
completed.
After
his
return
to
Ireland,
Swift
became
a
staunch
supporter
of
the
Irish
against
English
attempts
to
weaken
their
economy
and
political
power,
writing
pamphlets
such
as
the
satirical
A
Modest
Proposal,
in
which
he
suggests
that
the
Irish
problems
of
famine
and
overpopulation
could
be
easily
solved
by
having
the
babies
of
poor
Irish
subjects
sold
as
delicacies
to
feed
the
rich.
Gulliver’s
Travels
was
a
controversial
work
when
it
was
first
published
in
1726.
In
fact,
it
was
not
until
almost
ten
years
after
its
first
printing
that
the
book
appeared
with
the
entire
text
that
Swift
had
originally
intended
it
to
have.
Ever
since,
editors
have
excised
many
of
the
passages,
particularly
the
more
caustic
ones
dealing
with
bodily
functions.
Even
without
those
passages,
however,
Gulliver’s
Travels
serves
as
a
biting
satire,
and
Swift
ensures
that
it
is
both
humorous
and
critical,
constantly
attacking
British
and
European
society
through
its
descriptions
of
imaginary
countries.
Late
in
life,
Swift
seemed
to
many
observers
to
become
even
more
caustic
and
bitter
than
he
had
been.
Three
years
before
his
death,
he
was
declared
unable
to
care
for
himself,
and
guardians
were
appointed.
Based
on
these
facts
and
on
a
comparison
between
Swift’s
fate
and
that
of
his
character
Gulliver,
some
people
have
concluded
that
he
gradually
became
insane
and
that
his
insanity
was
a
natural
outgrowth
of
his
indignation
and
outrage
against
humankind.
However,
the
truth
seems
to
be
that
Swift
was
suddenly
incapacitated
by
a
paralytic
stroke
late
in
life,
and
that
prior
to
this
incident
his
mental
capacities
were
unimpaired.
Gulliver’s
Travels
is
about
a
specific
set
of
political
conflicts,
but
if
it
were
nothing
more
than
that
it
would
long
ago
have
been
forgotten.
The
staying
power
of
the
work
comes
from
its
depiction
of
the
human
condition
and
its
often
despairing,
but
occasionally
hopeful,
sketch
of
the
possibilities
for
humanity
to
rein
in
its
baser
instincts.