Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a 1726 satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, one of the most famous classics of English and world literature. The novel follows Lemuel Gulliver, an adventurous Englishman who travels to a series of strange lands, including Lilliput, where he encounters tiny people engaged in petty political disputes, Brobdingnag, where he is a small man among giants who criticise European customs, Laputa, home to impractical intellectuals disconnected from reality, and the land of the Houyhnhnms, where rational horses live alongside savage human-like Yahoos. Through these journeys the novel satirises human nature, the flaws of various civilisations and the imaginary travellers'-tales literary subgenre.