Gulliver's Travels

Written by the famous author Jonathan Swift. Most of the people recognize it as a book for children, but it is actually much more: a parody of travel literature, a political satire, a philosophical tract about humankind. Gulliver´s Travels was written between 1721 and 1726.

Gulliver´s Travels contains four parts and it is written as a pseudo-authentic travel narrative.

In the first part Gulliver comes to the Land named Liliput, the land of miniature people. In the second part he travels to Brobdignag, the land of the giants. In the third part he visits Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan and in the fourth and last part he comes to the land of the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos. Swifts work is a very critical satire concerning the society in which he lived.