With an Introduction & Notes by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury Jonathan Swift&s classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726 seven years after Defoe&s Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame & breadth of appeal) As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands & societies whose names have entered the English language notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput the giants of Brobdingnag & the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland where talking horses are the dominant species It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit & its attack on political & financial corruption as well as abuses in science continue to resonate in our own times