Gulliver’s Travels
Swift wrote the most savage satire in English, disguised as a children's adventure story.
“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surf...”
Why It Matters
Swift wrote the most savage satire in English, disguised as a children's adventure story. Each voyage strips away another layer of human self-regard — our politics, our science, our bodies, our reason — until the reader is left wondering if humanity deserves the dignity it claims. It has never gone out of print because it has never stopped being relevant.
The 
Take
Personal reviewMore boring and basic than expected, the horse nation was the best part but was not a fan of the the first 3 parts
Notable Quotes
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”