Gulliver's Travels

Swift's four voyages: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa's flying schemes, and the horses that shame mankind.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Jonathan Swift

type

Satire / adventure novel

era

Augustan Britain (1726)

language

English

setting

Four remote nations and the sea

parts

4 parts

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published anonymously in 1726, edited down to dodge prosecution.
• Its fourth voyage's Houyhnhnms make reason a horse and man a Yahoo.
• It lashed politics, science, and empire behind a traveler's plain tale.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Gulliver's Travels