Rank 59 of 100
Gulliver's Travels
Also known as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Synopsis
Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon, is wrecked among people six inches tall, then among giants, then in countries that mock science, law, and the human body itself. Children meet it as a size-changing adventure. Swift wrote it as a sustained insult to the species doing the traveling.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1726
- Language
- English
- Country
- Ireland
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Satire, Adventure
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 18th century
- Movement
- Enlightenment satire
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 306 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most reprinted satires
- Kind
- Fiction