And like that volume, it is more than entertainment. Yet as with Gulliver’s Travels, this is not a children’s book. More than two hundred years later, it inspired Terence Hanbury (T.H.) White to invent Mistress Masham’s Repose. Published in 1726, Swift’s tale created a sensation. The final voyage introduced a society of horses, rational, dignified, and morally exemplary, who ruled over a set of human-like beings with abysmal habits, low intelligence and no culture. Next he saw Laputa, a flying island ruled by visionary intellectuals. In Brobdingnag everything was grossly huge, twelve times the normal size Gulliver found himself caught and caged. In Lilliput, people stood six inches high, with all else to scale nations fought disastrously over the proper method to break eggs. The Irish satirist sent his mariner through four adventures that served as social commentary, equally humorous and acerbic. The King of Brobdingnag studies Gulliver, by James Gilray, 1803. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships, by Jonathan Swift. One true fantasy classic of the 1700s, however, is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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