《格列佛游记（英文版）》是一本优秀的政治讽刺小说，一卷讲述格列佛在小人国的奇遇，第二卷描述格列佛遭遇海难后游历大人国；第三卷讲述在航海途中遭到海盗袭击，在小岛上的经历，第四卷是在智马国的经历。其实，所谓小人国、大人国、智马国，无非是当年英国社会现实的反映。作者斯威夫特一生既傲过牧师，又曾积极投身政治活动。写过大量表达政治主张的小册子。因而，这部游记笔锋犀利，想象丰富，对当时议会政治及反动的宗教势力都有尖锐盼讽刺。高尔基就曾称斯威夫特为“伟大文学的创造者之一”。
斯威夫特在英国文学乃至世界文学中都产生了极为深远的影响，20世纪英国著名讽刺作家威尔斯自称一生读这《格列佛游记（英文版）》不下六次，因而才写出著名政治预言小说《1984》和《动物庄园》。
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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