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'''''Gulliver's Travels''''', or '''''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships''''', is a 1726 [[fiction]]al [[satire]] by [[Jonathan Swift]]. The novel follows main character Lemuel Gulliver and his journey to four countries. 

The four countries are Lilliput, a land of little people, Brobdingnag, a land of big people, Laputa, a land of intelligent but useless people, and Houyhnhnm, a land of horses. 

Swift wrote the novel for adults to show that some people and governments were wrong. The story was intended to make them change.

In 2010, a [[Gulliver's Travels (2010 movie)|movie version]] was made starring [[Jack Black]].

He ought to have had variety of reasons for his travelIn Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver first travels to the island of tiny men called Lilliputians.

During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches

After giving assurances of his good behaviour, he is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favourite of the Lilliput Royal Court.

As the news spreads that Gulliver has arrived in the capital city, lots of curious people pour into the city to see him.

Gulliver spends about two weeks sleeping on the floor of his temple while the Emperor orders a bed to be made for him.

When Gulliver stands up the next morning, he sees a beautiful landscape laid out in front of him, like a garden

None of the trees are taller than seven feet high, and all of the fields look like beds of flowers.

Gullivers was brave for all his troubles.


Two months later, Gulliver embarks on a second voyage. This time he travels to the land of the gigantic Brobdingnagians, where he is exhibited like a freak and made to fight animals. An eagle drop On his third voyage, Gulliver visits a series of islands devoted to abstract things like mathematics, abstract ideas, and magic.s him into the sea where he is picked up by a British ship and returned to England. On his fourth voyage, he visits the land of the Houyhnh(contracted; show full)erations to the original text, saying he had so much altered it that "I do hardly know mine own work" and repudiating all of Motte's changes as well as all the keys, libels, parodies, second parts and continuations that had appeared in the intervening years. This letter now forms part of many standard texts gulliver peed on the emperors castle to save his life because his castle was on fire!{{lit-stub}}

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