Gulliver Never Stopped Travelling

To the English novelist E.M. Forster, Gulliver’s Travels was ‘Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land’. For George Orwell, a staunch devotee of the book, Jonathan Swift’s crowning masterpiece was an attack on humanity, written by a man he described as ‘a Tory anarchist’ – one who was ‘presumably impotent and had an exaggerated horror of human dung’.