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Gulliver's Travels

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From: A Dictionary of British History
Date: 20040101
Author:JOHN CANNON

Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's best seller, appeared on 28 October 1726. Purporting to be an autobiographical account of Gulliver's ‘Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World’, contemporaries interpreted Swift's work as a political allegory on the administration of Sir Robert Walpole . Although Swift's scathing portrait of the bestial Yahoos outraged Victorian sensibilities, Gulliver's Travels endured as a children's classic.

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