The direct and unadorned narrative describes four remarkable journeys of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them one to the land of Lilliput, where six-inch-high inhabitants bicker over trivialities; and another to Brobdingnag, a land where giants reduce man to insignificance.
Written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail, this classic is diverse in its appeal: for children, it remains an enchanting fantasy. For adults, it is a witty parady of political life in Swift's time and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England.
A letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson
The Publisher to the Reader
Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput
Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Part 3: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan
Part 4: A Voyage to The Country of the Houyhnhnms