Gulliver's Travels
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Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 satirical pro
First edition of Gulliver's Travels, printed in London (1726)
Mural depicting Gulliver surrounded by citizens of Lilliput
Gulliver exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer (painting by Richard Redgrave)
Gulliver discovers Laputa, the floating/flying island (illustration by J. J. Grandville)
Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)
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Yahoos are legendary human beings in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift. Their behaviour and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from
Gulliver's Travels
…disconnected from reality; and in the land of the Houyhnhnms, he finds rational horses living peacefully alongside savage human-like creatures called Yahoos. Through these journeys, the novel satirises the flaws of various civilisations. It is uncertain when Swift began writing the novel, but it is considered…
The Servants Drive a Herd of Yahoos into the Field by Louis John Rhead, Metropolitan Museum of Art