Action, Adventure, and Surprising Facts: Gullivers Travels Revealed

Gulliver s Travels and Interesting , Love Life, Love Facts Jonathan Swift. Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift. Read by Jasper Britton Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ships doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic if rather stolid Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate bestseller when it was first published in 1726, Gullivers Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swifts day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece, whose powerful satire continues to strike home. Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary subgenre