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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was first published in 1726. The full title of the book is 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'. It's a satrical fantasy novel that charts Lemuel Gulliver on his voyages to different worlds. First is Lilliput where Gulliver meets a race of tiny people. Second is Brobdingnag where the people are giants. The third voyage is to Laputa (a kingdom where the people are devoted to the arts of music, mathematics, and astronomy but are unable to use them for practical ends), Balnibarbi (a kingdom in ruins brought about by the blind pursuit of science without practical results), Luggnagg (with people who are immortal), and Glubbdubdrib (where our hero meets the ghosts of historical figures such as Julius Caesar and Rene Descartes). The fourth voyage is to the Land of the Houyhnhnms, where talking horses rule over deformed human like creatures called Yahoos.