On Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Cliffs Notes)

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In CliffsNotes on Gulliver's Travels, you follow the adventures of a man who is thought to be lost at sea but ends up traveling through many strange lands. The novel is a consciously funny satire that lampoons people's conceits and puffery with tales of abominable behavior. Jonathan Swift's masterpiece is both a social commentary and — in its abridged form — a children's classic.

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\About the Author A. Lewis Soens, Jr., received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University and has taught in several distinguished departments of English, including at the University of Colorado and the University of Notre Dame. Patrick Salerno has worked as a teacher of language, literature, and composition, and as a curriculum developer in the fields of English and language arts.