Gulliver's Travels

"Gulliver´s Travels" is the name of a book written by the famous author Jonathan Swift. Most of the people recognize it as a book for children, but it is actually a critical work. "Gulliver´s Travels" was written between 1721 and 1726. Until today this is the work that we combine with the name Jonathan Swift, altough he wrote different other stuff.

"Gulliver´s Travels" contains four parts and it is written as a travel diary. This form of writing suggests us that it is a real diary, but it is not real and altough some parts in the book seem to find a match in reality, the whole story is imaginary.

In the first part Gulliver comes to the Land named Liliput, the land of dwarfs. In the second part he travels to Brobdingnag, 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 inhabitants called the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos (there is no deeper connection between the Yahoos and a famous web domain)

Swifts work is a very critical satire concerning the society in which he lived.

Today we can find a multiplicity of childrens stuff that is based on "Gulliver´s Travels" and also a lot of film adaptations.