Gulliver's travels
By: by Jonathan Swift. Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne.
Contributors: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Series: Great books of the Western World -- v. 36.; Great books of the Western world -- v. 36.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Subjects: Fiction -- 15th and 16th centuries
Other titles: Tristram Shandy.
Description: Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. At first, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches high. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet high. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky and to a land where horses are endowed with reason and beasts are shaped like men.