Big books

Gulliver’s Travels recounts, in first person narrative, the many strange adventures of Dr. Lemuel Gulliver in the land of Lilliputians, where people are not more than six inches in height, and Brobdingnag. where people are giants. The book helped the novel become recognized as a literary genre in English. Gulliver’s Travels, a parody of the then-trendy travelogue, blends adventure and scathing satire while making fun of English traditions and the contemporary political climate.