Gulliver's Travels

[ guhl-uh-verz ]

noun

1. a social and political satire (1726) by Jonathan Swift, narrating the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to four imaginary regions: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms.

Gulliver's Travels

1. (1726) A satire by Jonathan Swift . Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman, travels to exotic lands, including Lilliput (where the people are six inches tall), Brobdingnag (where the people are seventy feet tall), and the land of the Houyhnhnms (where horses are the intelligent beings, and humans, called Yahoos , are mute brutes of labor).

Notes

Probably the most famous image from this book is of the tiny Lilliputians having tied down the sleeping giant, Gulliver.

Example Sentences

From the ashes of Morey’s proposed book came “Small Ball,” about a small team with big basketball dreams set on the fictional Lilliput island out of “Gulliver’s Travels.”

From Washington Times

On the map included in Volume II of his 1726 satire “Gulliver’s Travels,” Jonathan Swift depicts it as an enormous peninsula somewhere north of California.

From New York Times

She viewed Jonathan Swift's own, annotated, copy of his book Gulliver's Travels, during her visit to the library.

From BBC

There’s an interesting case study of fellow Ménière’s sufferer Jonathan Swift and his struggles while trying to write “Gulliver’s Travels.”

From Washington Post

Afterward, curator Carolyn Vega displayed island-related treasures from the NYPL’s Berg Collection, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s copy of “Gulliver’s Travels” and a proof page of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” with its author’s marginal corrections.

From Washington Post