Gulliver's Travels

Published in 1726

Categories: AdventureClassics for Adults

Gulliver lies stretched on the ground, waking up, as hundreds of tiny Lilliputians swarm around him
Illustration: Arthur Rackham (1909)

Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, is wrecked on an island where the people are six inches tall, and wakes up tied to the ground with a thousand tiny ropes. On later voyages he becomes a plaything among giants, visits a flying island of scientists, and reaches a land where wise horses rule and humans are filthy beasts. Jonathan Swift published his travel tale in 1726 as a satire on England and on humanity itself, and it has delighted children and adults ever since.