description: In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.
language: English
title: Gulliver's Travels
titlecomplete: Gulliver's Travels (Unabridged Classics in Audio)
characters: Lemuel Gulliver
genres: Literature, British Literature, Classics, School, Adventure, Novels, 18th Century, Fiction, Fantasy, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 267784
places: Brobdingnag, Lilliput
publisher: Tantor Audio