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Detailed explanation-1: -The strange circumstances in which Gulliver’s Travels was first published in 1726 tell us a great deal about the kind of book it was designed to be. Its author, Jonathan Swift, arranged for the manuscript of half the book to be dropped off in secret by an intermediary at the house of a publisher, Benjamin Motte.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was first published in 1726 under the title Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. The fantastical narrative was initially presented as a factual account written by ‘Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.