Satirical novel by the Irish writer Jonathan
Swift published 1726. The four countries
visited by the narrator Gulliver ridicule
different aspects of human nature, customs,
and politics. Gulliver's travels take him to
Lilliput, whose inhabitants are only 15 cm/6
in tall; Brobdignag, where they are gigantic;
Laputa, run by mad scientists; and the land
of the Houyhnhnms, horses who embody reason
and virtue, while the human Yahoos have only
the worst human qualities.