Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is a book written in 1726 by Jonathan Swift. It is a satire about human nature—how humans act—and was very popular. It is about a man named Gulliver who goes to four places. The first has very tiny people that are less than 6 inches tall, the second has very tall people, the third is a floating island with people obsessed with science, and the fourth has savage humans and talking, wise horses.
The book was an immediate success. John Gay said that "it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery".[1]
Gulliver's Travels Media
Gulliver tied up by the Lilliputians, from Gulliver's Travels: Coloured Picture Book for the Nursery, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, New York, 1883
Mural depicting Gulliver surrounded by citizens of Lilliput
Gulliver exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer (painting by Richard Redgrave)
Gulliver discovers Laputa, the floating/flying island (illustration by J. J. Grandville)
The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver by James Gillray (1803), (satirising Napoleon Bonaparte and George III). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Comic book cover by Lillian Chestney
