《格列佛游记》发表于1726年，虽然采用了当时流行的航海模式，但却不是真正意义上的航海小说。二百多年间，《格列佛游记》已经成为童话、游记和讽刺文学的经典，流播世界，传之久远。小人国和大人国的故事尤其脍炙人口，受到一代又一代读者的喜爱。

《格列佛游记》讲述了主人公格列佛航海过程中的几次奇遇。在小说的四卷中，格列佛分别以随船医生或船长的身份出海，但每次都因海难或其他的原因被弃于一个奇特的地方。斯威夫特运用幻想的手法刻画了英国现实社会中各种类型的人物，并对其进行讽刺和批判。

斯威夫特是一位站在时代高点的思想家和文学家。《格列佛游记》对教会、宫廷政治及人类劣性的讽刺，跨越了地域和岁月，已成世界文学的伟大宝藏，对后世产生了深远的影响。

(Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. Even though it adopted the popular navigation mode, it is not the navigation novels in the true essence. During two hundred years, Gulliver's Travels has become a classic in fairy tales, travel notes and satire literature. It spreads all over the world for a long time, especially the story of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. It is loved by generation and generation's readers.

Gulliver's Travels tells the story of the protagonist Gulliver's several times of sailing adventure. In four volumes of the novel, Gulliver respectively despatch with the identity of the doctor or the captain, but every time, he was abandoned in a strange place because of the perils of the sea or other reasons. Swift uses the fantasy method to depict various types of characters in the British social reality, and carries on irony and criticism.

Swift is a thinker and writer standing in the peak of the era. Gulliver's Travels' irony to the church, court politics and human pessimum crossed the region and years. It has become a great treasure in the world literature, and has a profound influence on later generations.

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