The Spectator Australia Literary Investigations Unit is renowned for uncovering many long-lost masterpieces, but few match the significance of its discovery of the missing six chapters of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. We are now privileged to release the first of these works of genius.

Chapter IVa. When I had been on Lilliput for about 6 months, the illustrious monarch of that kingdom became fascinated by the political and social structure of my homeland.